USA. Law And Order: How the Smallest State is Defeating America’s Biggest Addiction Crisis  Rhode Island inmates get opioid replacements while they’re locked up and it seems to be keeping them from overdosing when they get out. (...

USA. Rehabilitation Plus Rehab? Jails Dispense Drugs To Treat Inmates’ Addictions At a time when the U.S. government is trying to deal with a nationwide opioid epidemic, many jails across the country are only now rolling out medicines to he...

Ethics and evidence on naltrexone treatment of offenders Drugs&Alcohol Findings, UK, 2018 http://findings.org.uk/PHP/dl.php?file=nx_off.hot&s=dy&sf=sfnos

High drug related mortality rates following prison release: Assessing the acceptance likelihood of a naltrexone injection and related concerns. Murphy PN, Mohammed F, Wareing M, Cotton A, McNeill J, Irving P, Jones S, Sharples L, Monk R, Elton P....

Treating HCV in a Captive Audience: Eradication Efforts in the Prison Microenvironment. Redman JS, Sterling RK. Am J Gastroenterol. 2018 Jul 24. doi: 10.1038/s41395-018-0201-x.  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41395-018-0201-x

EU-Behörden fordern bessere Präventionund Behandlung von Infektionen in Gefängnissen Stockholm – Gefängnisse sind auch in Europa Brutstätten für gefährliche Krankheits­erreger. Zwei EU-Behörd...