Drug Use, Dependence, and Abuse Among State Prisoners …

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Department of justice Office of justice Programs bureau of justice statistics JUNE 2017. Special Report NCJ 250546. Drug Use, dependence , and Abuse Among State Prisoners and Jail Inmates, 2007-2009. Jennifer Bronson, , and Jessica Stroop, BJS Statisticians Stephanie Zimmer and Marcus Berzofsky, , RTI International M. ore than half (58%) of State Prisoners and Figure 1. two-thirds (63%) of sentenced jail inmates met Inmates and adult general population who met the criteria the criteria for drug dependence or Abuse , for drug dependence or Abuse , 2007 2009. according to data collected through the 2007 and 2008-09 Percent Abuse National Inmate Surveys (NIS) (figure 1). In comparison, 70. dependence approximately 5% of the total general population age 18 or 60. older met the criteria for drug dependence or Abuse . General 50. population data come from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) collected from 2007 to 2009 by 40.

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