ABSTRACT
Reliable data indicate that alcohol and drug use is present in the majority of violent crimes both in the United States and Europe. Many of these violent offenses comprise homicides. Alcohol abuse has been consistently associated with crime. For example, 1998 data from the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (typically referred to as ADAM) program, which collects biomarker data on drugs in the systems of persons arrested found that the rate of testing positive across 35 cities ranged between 40 and 80 percent (Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program, 1999). Figure 9.1 shows the trends in arrests by type of drug law violated from 1982-2005.
