Big jump in drug use among males arrested and booked into jail

SAN DIEGO – Approximately three-quarters of adult males (76 percent) arrested and booked into local jail in San Diego County tested positive for an illicit substance in 2015 – eight percent higher than in 2014 and the highest level seen in the past 16 years, according to an annual substance abuse monitoring report released by the SANDAG Criminal Justice Research Division.

The report found that an increasing percentage of males were using methamphetamine and marijuana.

The percentage of males testing positive for meth jumped from 40 percent to 48 percent between 2014 and 2015, also a 16-year hi...