Background Homelessness affects many people in contemporary society with consequences
for individuals and the wider community. Homeless people experience poorer levels of …

Background Prisoners experience significantly worse health than the general population.
This review examines the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of peer interventions in prison …

Background Hepatitis C (HCV) prevalence is most common amongst injecting drug users
where up to 98% of the population can be infected despite a low prevalence of HIV. This …

Medically supervised injecting centres are “legally sanctioned and supervised facilities
designed to reduce the health and public order problems associated with illegal injection drug …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore prison drug injecting prevalence, identify
any changes in injecting prevalence and practice during imprisonment and explore views on …

Injecting drug users (IDUs) are at the greatest risk of hepatitis C infection by using any item
of injecting equipment that has come into contact with contaminated blood. Alongside this, …

Background Many opiate users require prescribed medication to help them achieve
abstinence, commonly taking the form of a detoxification regime. In UK prisons, drug users are …

Women are over‐represented as the recipients of injections of illicit drugs and are often
injected by their intimate partners. This study used qualitative research to explore women drug …

Objectives Waiting times for secondary care psychological therapy remain a ‘blind spot’ in
serious mental illness (SMI) provision, and their reduction is a priority within the National …

The United Kingdom Ministry of Justice recently highlighted the extent of buprenorphine (Subutex)
misuse in English andWelsh prisons, naming it the third most misused drug overall. …