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Article: Alleged offenders tell truth about drug use.
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- M2 Presswire
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- July 31, 2003
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M2 PRESSWIRE-31 July 2003-AIC: Alleged offenders tell truth about drug use(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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A paper examining the extent to which participants in the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program under-report their recent drug use has been released by the Australian Institute of Criminology today. DUMA collects confidential and voluntary data on drug use from people detained by police. Participants are asked to answer questions about their use of drugs, as well as supply a urine sample. This sample is tested for the presence of illicit drugs and compared with the self-reported answers in the questionnaire.
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