Title |
Measuring substance use in prisons
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Published in |
Drug & Alcohol Review, October 2014
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DOI | 10.1111/dar.12156 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Emma van Dyken, Foon Yin Lai, Phong K. Thai, Christoph Ort, Raimondo Bruno, Wayne Hall, K. Paul Kirkbride, Jochen F. Mueller, Jeremy Prichard |
Abstract |
Wastewater analysis (WWA) is intended to be a direct and objective method of measuring substance use in large urban populations. It has also been used to measure prison substance use in two previous studies. The application of WWA in this context has raised questions as to how best it might be used to measure illicit drug use in prisons, and whether it can also be used to measure prescription misuse. We applied WWA to a small regional prison to measure the use of 12 licit and illicit substances. We attempted to measure the non-medical use of methadone and buprenorphine and to compare our findings with the results of the prison's mandatory drug testing (MDT). |
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