2009 AARIN Symposium: Drug Markets

During 2008, as part of AARIN data collection interviews collected data on methamphetamine use and drug markets. Some of the findings from the forthcoming special topic report on the Drug Market Addendum illustrate distinct differences in the drug market characteristics of different illicit drugs, and differences in the acquisition habits of demographically different arrestees. Of particular note were the gender differences in which illicit drug was acquired, whether or not it was purchased directly, and the likelihood of a street-level acquisition.