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DRUG HISTORIES OF PRISONERS - SURVEY OF INMATES OF STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES, JANUARY 1974

NCJ Number
34603
Author(s)
W I BARTON
Date Published
1976
Length
58 pages
Annotation
THE RESULTS OF INTERVIEWS OF 10,400 INMATES OF STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES BY LEAA AND THE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS TO DETERMINE THE TYPE AND EXTENT OF DRUG USE BY INMATES BEFORE INCARCERATION.
Abstract
ESTIMATES FROM THE SURVEY ARE THAT 61 PERCENT OF THE INMATES HAD USED DRUGS - INCLUDING HEROIN, COCAINE, METHADONE, AMPHETAMINES, BARBITUATES, AND MARIJUANA WITHOUT A DOCTOR'S PERSCRIPTION, AND OUTSIDE OF A TREATMENT PROGRAM. MOST OFTEN USED WAS MARIJUANA. ONE FIFTH OF THE INMATES HAD BEEN DAILY HEROIN USERS, ONE QUARTER OF THE INMATES SAID THAT THEY WERE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS AT THE TIME OF THE OFFENSES RESULTING IN THEIR IMPRISONMENT, AND FOUR PERCENT HAD BEEN ENROLLED IN DRUG TREATMENT. FORTY-THREE PERCENT HAD BEEN DRINKING AT THE TIME OF THEIR OFFENSE.

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