Treatment utilization among people with drug use disorders in prison: a national longitudinal cohort study
Nicoline Toresen Lokdam, Marianne Riksheim Stavseth, Ingeborg Skjaervø, Anne Bukten · 2024
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Nicoline Lokdam and three co-authors measure drug treatment coverage in Norwegian prisons in this 2024 paper. The cohort followed 733 people recruited across fifty-seven prisons, with registry data on their care. Forty percent scored in the likely dependence range before imprisonment, a level that calls for treatment. Of that group, sixty-four percent received at least one treatment episode during their sentence. Longer sentences raised the odds of treatment sharply, nearly nine fold past a year.
Being born in a Nordic country, daily injecting, and using several drugs also raised the odds. The flip side names the gaps: short sentences and foreign birth track with missed care. Norway's coverage is high by international standards, yet a third of those in need still went untreated. The authors call for work on the barriers facing the missed groups.
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| CREATOR | Nicoline Toresen Lokdam, Marianne Riksheim Stavseth, Ingeborg Skjaervø, Anne Bukten |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |