Wright D, Gfroerer J, Epstein J
Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD 20857, USA.
NIDA Res Monogr. 1997;167:477-97.
Levels of hardcore drug use have been especially difficult to estimate because of the relative rarity of the behavior, the difficulty of locating hardcore drug users, and the tendency to underreport stigmatized behavior. This chapter presents a new application of ratio estimation, combining sample data from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) together with population counts of the number of persons arrested in the past year from the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and the number of persons in drug treatment programs in the past year from the National Drug and Alcoholism Treatment Unit Survey (NDATUS). The population counts serve as a benchmark accounting for undercoverage and underreporting of hard drug users.
由于吸毒行为相对罕见、难以找到吸毒者以及存在对受污名化行为少报的倾向，因此很难估算出使用硬性毒品的人数。本章介绍了比率估计的一种新应用，将来自全国药物滥用家庭调查（NHSDA）的样本数据与统一犯罪报告（UCR）中过去一年被捕人数的人口统计数据以及国家药物和酒精中毒治疗单位调查（NDATUS）中过去一年接受药物治疗项目的人数相结合。这些人口统计数据作为一个基准，用于说明硬性毒品使用者的覆盖不足和少报情况。
