Substance use disorder in forensic hospitals: A scoping review of practices and interventions
Dane Mauer-Vakil, Erin Pereira, Christopher Canning, Bernard Le Foll, Geoff Bardwell · 2026
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Dane Mauer-Vakil and colleagues map in 2026 what is known about substance use care inside forensic hospitals. These secure hospitals treat people with mental illness who have entered the justice system, and substance use disorders are common among them. Care for addiction is widely seen as something forensic hospitals should provide, yet practice knowledge stays thin.
Following standard scoping methods, the team searched four databases for peer reviewed studies in English through May 2025. Forty nine articles qualified, most from Europe and most observational. Reported substance use burden ran high, though estimates swung with the detection method used. Treatment studies were mostly small and uncontrolled, centered on group based talking therapies. Patients found them acceptable and intermediate outcomes improved, but effects on substance use itself were mixed.
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| CREATOR | Dane Mauer-Vakil, Erin Pereira, Christopher Canning, Bernard Le Foll, Geoff Bardwell |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 116 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |