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A Randomized, Open Label Trial of Methadone Continuation versus Forced Withdrawal in a Combined US Prison and Jail
Effectiveness Bank Analysis: Keep Maintaining Opiate-Dependent Prisoners
From the USA, a rare randomised trial found in favour of continuing methadone maintenance when patients entered prison rather than compulsory withdrawal. The...
Vývoj a implementace modulu zdravotní výchovy a podpory pro vězněné matky
Abstraktní
Diskutovat o získaných znalostech a budoucích důsledcích pro uvězněné rodiče a členy komunity prostřednictvím vývoje a implementace standardizovaného modulu zdravotní výchovy a podpory pro uvězněné matky. Popisná pilotní studie...
The Reciprocal Lagged Effects of Substance Use and Recidivism in a Prisoner Reentry Context
Abstract
Background
Much work has investigated the association between substance use, crime, and recidivism, yet little scholarship has examined these associations longitudinally among samples of recently released prisoners. We examine...
Souvislosti mezi užíváním návykových látek a typem trestné činnosti u vězňů s problémy s užíváním návykových látek
Cíl: Cílem této studie bylo studovat souvislosti mezi vzorci užívání návykových látek a typy trestných činů u vězňů s problémy s užíváním návykových látek, a konkrétně to, zda se vzorce užívání návykových látek liší u pachatelů násilných...
Morbidity and Mortality in Homeless Individuals, Prisoners, Sex Workers, and Individuals with Substance Use Disorders in High-Income Countries
Summary
Background
Inclusion health focuses on people in extremely poor health due to poverty, marginalisation, and multimorbidity. We aimed to review morbidity and mortality data on four overlapping populations who experience...
Problémy s alkoholem v systému trestního soudnictví: příležitost k intervenci
Alkohol je spojen s kriminalitou, zejména násilnou trestnou činností. Mnoho lidí je uvězněno kvůli trestné činnosti související s alkoholem. Alkohol není ve věznicích povolen s výjimkou několika málo případů a nezákonné užívání alkoholu ve...
Effect of Initiating Drug Treatment on the Risk of Drug-Related Poisoning Death and Acquisitive Crime among Offending Heroin Users
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Background
A recent Cochrane review of randomised trials identified a lack of evidence for interventions provided to drug-using offenders. We use routine data to address whether contact with treatment services reduces heroin user...
Drug-Treatment Systems in Prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe
This research project on drug-treatment systems in prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe looks in detail into the situation of drug users among criminal justice populations and the corresponding health-care responses in nine countries in...
Characteristics of Persons Who Inject Drugs and Who Witness Opioid Overdoses in Vietnam
Abstract
Background
Persons who use opioids have a high risk of overdose and associated mortality. In Vietnam, little is known about the characteristics of this population and the persons who are witness to those overdoses. One approach...
Barriers to Retention in Methadone Maintenance Therapy among People who Inject Drugs in Bangkok
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Background
Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is a mainstay for treating opioid use disorder and preventing and managing HIV among people who inject drugs (PWID). While previous research suggested low dosing of methadone and...
Měnící se vzorce zneužívání návykových látek ve věznicích pro dospělé a reakce služeb
Výsledky inspekcí byly v roce 2014 doplněny terénní prací v osmi věznicích s cílem vytvořit celkový obraz o užívání drog a reakcích na něj ve věznicích v Anglii a Walesu. Tváří v tvář rychle se měnícím a různorodým vzorcům užívání drog byly...
The Effectiveness of Illegal Drug Interventions
This Health Research Board document reviews evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in the areas of prevention, harm reduction and long-term recovery from addiction to illegal drugs.
It asks which interventions are effective for:
- ...
How to Tackle America’s Opioid Crisis?
Much the result of a poor understanding of how to treat chronic pain, the United States has in recent years been rocked by an unprecedented drug crisis: The opioid epidemic.
Opioids include drugs derived from opium, such as heroin, as...
Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 5: Safeguarding the Community
Time to consolidate the lessons of the course’s last five instalments about treatment intended to safeguard the community, the final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. A common theme is the contradiction between treatment centred on the...
Long Lasting Effects of Chronic Heavy Cannabis Abuse
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Background and Objectives
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent of short-term memory impairment and schizophrenia-like symptoms in heavy and systematic cannabis users and the association between the severity of...
Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management
Often called the Orange Book, this is guidance for clinicians treating people with drug problems.
This 2017 version offers new guidelines on:
- prison-based treatment
- new psychoactive substances and club drugs
- mental health co-morbidity...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment Systems to Reduce Alcohol-Related Crime and Safeguard the Community
Final cell of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. The theme is set by an Australian review which argues that despite radically different starting points, criminal justice and treatment systems must collaborate to deliver treatment. We invite you...
For Whom Does Prison-Based Drug Treatment Work? Results from a Randomized Experiment
For the first time in a prison setting, a randomised trial has rigorously compared intensive residential therapeutic community treatment to outpatient counselling. Confounding expectations, the US prison for problem drug users which hosted...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What If the Therapist ... Is Also the Jailer?
A cell in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. In an extreme form, the title poses the dilemma for alcohol treatment staff who may also be (seen as) working for authorities whose main role is to control or punish the ‘client’ or who may be...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment not for the Patient but for the Community
The final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix enters the domain of treatment organised not primarily for the patient, but to safeguard the wider community, encountering what seems a core contradiction depicted on the cover of WHO guidance...
