Pulse Check: Trends in Drug Abuse

Since 1992, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has published the Pulse Check, a source for timely information on drug abuse and drug markets. The report aims to describe hardcore drug-abusing populations, emerging drugs, new routes of administration, varying use patterns, changing demand for treatment, drug-related criminal activity, and shifts in supply and distribution patterns.

Pulse Check regularly addresses five drugs of serious concern: cocaine, marijuana, heroin, methamphetamine, and -- as of the last issue -- "ecstasy" (methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA) and other club drugs. Additionally, the current issue provides information the consequences of the September 11th terrorist attacks including a reduction in illegal drug availability, an impact on trafficking routes, marketing strategies, and use patterns, and an increase in the desire for treatment.

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/drugfact/pulsechk/january04/january2004.pdf

Publication Year: 2002

Publisher

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
Executive Office of the President
750 17th Street, NW
Washington, dc 20500
Phone: 202-395-6732
Website: http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
Email: ondcp@ncjrs.org