Towards Equivalence of Care: Integrating Custodial Settings Into Alcohol and Other Drug Strategies in Australia
Thileepan Naren, Jocelyn Chan, Sarah Pellicano, Michael Curtis, Shelley Walker, Jocelyn Jones, Jarrah Duckett, Alexander Campbell, Stuart A Kinner · 2026
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Thileepan Naren and co-authors argue that drug policy forgets the people behind bars, in a 2026 Australian paper. People entering police cells, youth detention, and prisons carry far heavier alcohol and drug harms than the general public.
Yet national and state drug strategies barely mention custody as a place for prevention, treatment, or harm reduction. That silence clashes with Australia's own pledge that prisoners get health care equal to the community's. The authors reviewed the strategy documents, using a language model to run set analytic questions across them, and workshopped the gap with experts from many fields. Their call is for equivalence of care to be written into drug strategy, not left as a slogan.
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| CREATOR | Thileepan Naren, Jocelyn Chan, Sarah Pellicano, Michael Curtis, Shelley Walker, Jocelyn Jones, Jarrah Duckett, Alexander Campbell, Stuart A Kinner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 103 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |