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  • Justice Dept. Ends Testing of Criminals for Drug Use

    01/28/2004 6:43:50 PM PST · by neverdem · 3 replies · 148+ views
    NY Times ^ | January 28, 2004 | FOX BUTTERFIELD
    The Justice Department has quietly ended a program to measure criminals' use of drugs and forecast new drug epidemics, citing budget cuts by Congress. The program, the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring program, or ADAM, tests newly arrested criminals entering jail for narcotics violations in 35 cities. Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d, in the Reagan administration, started it in 1986. Law enforcement officials and criminal justice experts criticized ending the program, saying it was a useful tool in the battle against crime and drugs and was widely credited for tracking the rise and fall of the crack epidemic and detecting the...