Drugs-crime axis. (Drugs).The South Australian Office of Crime Statistics has released the report of a study by Aldis Putnin of about 900 young offenders aged 14-17 held in secure detention in the state. The study found that about 60% of the detainees were drug users at the time of their most recent offence. It also found that: * marijuana was their most frequently used illicit drug, with an 81% use rate in the month before detention, compared with 73% use rate for alcohol and about 25% for other drugs; * about 44% of the young offenders were using marijuana on an almost daily basis; * of the 455 who indicated how many drinks they consumed on a typical `drinking day', 53% said they had 10 or more; * about 25% reported having injected drugs at some time. The study also reported a high recidivism 1. A tendency to lapse into a previous pattern of behavior, especially a pattern of criminal habits. 2. The relapse of a disease or symptom. Also called recidivation. The report also indicated a high use of inhalants 1. something meant to be inhaled; see inhalation (def. 3). 2. a class of psychoactive substances whose volatile vapors are subject to abuse. antifoaming inhalant an agent that is inhaled as a vapor to prevent the formation of foam in the respiratory passages of a patient with pulmonary edema. (glue, butane butane /bu·tane/ (bu´tan) an aliphatic hydrocarbon from petroleum, occurring as a colorless flammable gas; used in pharmacy as an aerosol propellant.bu·tane (by  gas, petrol or some other aerosol substance) by younger offenders, aged 11-14 (Advertiser, 20/10/01, p.68).
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