Applicable to: England and Wales

The New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NEW-ADAM) programme was reviewed as part of a programme to improve measures of drug-related crime. As part of this, a new continuous Arrestee Survey commenced in September 2003 in a representative sample of 60 custody suites in England and Wales. This involves computer assisted self-interviewing, covering: self-reported offending, self-reported drug use, information on sources of illegal drugs, past experience of drug treatment and Arrest Referral, other aspects of the Drugs Intervention Programme (DIP) and drug testing arrestees. The target sample size was 9,000 arrestees.