Injecting drug use is an independent risk factor for reincarceration after release from prison: A prospective cohort study

RJ Winter; M Stoové; PA Agius; ME Hellard; SA Kinner

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Injecting drug use is an independent risk factor for reincarceration after release from prison: A prospective cohort study

RJ Winter, M Stoové, PA Agius, ME Hellard, SA Kinner

Drug and Alcohol Review | WILEY | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1111/dar.12881

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Abstract

Introduction and Aims: Once involved in the criminal justice system, people who inject drugs (PWID) have a high probability of multiple system encounters. Imprisonment typically fails to rehabilitate PWID, who upon return to the community are at considerable risk of returning to injecting drug use (IDU) and poor health and social outcomes. We examined the effect of IDU resumption, and a suite of other sociodemographic, criminogenic, health and behavioural indicators, on the timing of reincarceration among adults with a history of IDU following release from prison. Design and Methods: Structured interviews were conducted with 561 PWID in Queensland, Australia prior to release from prison and ..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Strategic Award #409966 and the Centre for Research Excellence on Injecting Drug Use (CREIDU) #1001144. RW is supported by NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship #603756 and CREIDU. MS is supported by NHMRC Career Development Fellowship #1090445, PA is supported by CREIDU, MH is supported by NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship #1112297, SK is supported by NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship #1078168. The funding sources had no role in the study design, collection or analysis of data, or in the writing or submission of the manuscript. The authors acknowledge the contribution to this work of the Victorian Operational Infrastructure Support Programme.