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NT Drug Trends 2009 : Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS)

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Title

NT Drug Trends 2009 : Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS)

Collection

Northern Territory drug trends; PublicationNT; E-Journals

Date

2010

Description

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).; This publication contains may contain links to external sites. These external sites may no longer be active.

Notes

C. Moon

Language

English

Subject

Drug abuse -- Northern Territory -- Statistics -- Periodicals; Drug abuse -- Northern Territory -- Periodicals; Drug abuse surveys -- Northern Territory -- Periodicals

Publisher name

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre; University of New South Wales

Place of publication

Sydney (N.S.W.)

Volume

Australian Drug Trends Series No. 44

Copyright owner

Check within Publication or with content Publisher.

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/261141

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/488949

Page content

97 Figure 56: Number of ATS total consumer and provider arrests in the NT, 1999/002006/07 Source: ACC Cocaine As is the case with heroin arrests, the NT has recorded only small numbers of cocaine arrests and seizures since 2003/04 (Table 70), recording no arrests and no seizures in 2007/08. Table 70: Cocaine arrest and seizure characteristics, 2003/04-2006/07 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 Consumer arrests 0 5 1 1 0 Provider arrests 0 0 1 0 0 Total arrests* 0 5 1 1 0 Seizure number 0 4 3 3 0 Seizure weight (g) 0 8 5 26 0 Source: ACC * Includes arrests where consumer/provider status is not provided and so may be greater than the sum of the rows above Cannabis Consumer and provider arrests related to cannabis declined in 2007/08, after three years of increase, to a total of 552 (Table 71). The number and weight of seizures both increased into 2007/08. Table 71: Cannabis arrest and seizure characteristics, 2003/04-2006/07 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 Consumer arrests 1 289 368 409 386 Provider arrests 0 99 113 137 91 Total arrests* 315 429 526 588 552 Seizure number 790 877 1144 986 1,077 Seizure weight (g) 139,220 56,736 55,662 55,202 83,179 Source: ACC * Includes arrests where consumer/provider status is not provided and so may be greater than the sum of the rows above 124 160 56 50 52 93 94 134 175 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 1999/00 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 N u m b er o f ar re st s