USA. Opioid Addiction In Jails: An Anthropologist's Perspective Dr. Kimberly Sue is the medical director of the Harm Reduction Coalition, a national advocacy group that works to change U.S. policies and attitudes about the treatment of drug users...

Clinician identified barriers to treatment for individuals in Appalachia with opioid use disorder following release from prison: a social ecological approach. Bunting AM, Oser CB, Staton M, Eddens KS, Knudsen H. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2018 Dec 3...

Irland. Almost half of inmates at Dublin women's prison receiving methadone treatment It is the largest proportion of prisoners undergoing opioid substitution treatment at any detention facility in the State. (DublinLive, 08.11.2019) https://www...

USA. CASHING IN ON CRUELTY- Stories of death, abuse and neglect at the GEO immigration detention facility in Aurora (…) The Final Hours of Kamyar Samimi  “On the first day of Mr. Samimi’s incarceration, GEO’s physician ordered that Mr. Sam...

Irland. More than 2,000 inmates receiving methadone treatment The number of inmates on a methadone treatment programme across the prison system last year was the highest since 2012. (Irish Examiner, Irland, 16.10.2019) https://www.irishexaminer....

Optimising opioid substitution therapy in the prison environment. Alam F, Wright N, Roberts P, Dhadley S, Townley J, Webster R. Int J Prison Health. 2019 Dec 5;15(4):293-307. doi: 10.1108/IJPH-12-2017-0061. Abstract https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...