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A Randomized, Open Label Trial of Methadone Continuation versus Forced Withdrawal in a Combined US Prison and Jail

Scientific article

11 March 2018

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 potential...

The Reciprocal Lagged Effects of Substance Use and Recidivism in a Prisoner Reentry Context

Scientific article

7 June 2017

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 the...

Associations between Substance Use and Type of Crime in Prisoners with Substance Use Problems

Scientific article

15 January 2018

Aim: The present study aimed to study the associations between substance use patterns and types of crimes in prisoners with substance use problems, and specifically whether substance use patterns were different in violent offenders. Methods...

Drug-Treatment Systems in Prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe

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1 June 2017

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...

Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses

Scientific article

1 July 2015

Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...

Webinar: Alcohol Interventions for Males on Remand in Prison

4 September 2017

Webinar

United Kingdom

Alcohol use and offending behaviour often go together. Data from the Alcohol and Crime Commission indicates that 70% of the prison population in the UK, who are mostly young males, reported that they had been drinking when they committed their offence.

Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 5: Safeguarding the Community

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26 July 2017

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...

For Whom Does Prison-Based Drug Treatment Work? Results from a Randomized Experiment

Scientific article

30 November 2014

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?

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31 May 2017

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

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17 May 2017

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...