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. 2015 Mar 5;110(5):805–820. doi: 10.1111/add.12839

Table 1.

Drug seizure amounta, purity and price (SAPP) patterns typically expected to follow increases/decreases in drug production and domestic criminal justice interdiction.

Seizure amount Purity Price
Increase in
Drug production
Domestic criminal justice interdiction
Decrease in
Drug production
Domestic criminal justice interdiction
a

Purity‐adjusted seizure amount (i.e. seizure amount sans diluents and adulterants). ↑ = increase. ↓ = decrease. A drug production or domestic criminal justice intervention sometimes impacts only a subset of the three indicators listed. In that case, the subset impacted can be expected to change as described in the Table.