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Drug users in prison

This section of the bulletin tables reports an unstructured collection of various studies of prison inmatesin different countries over the past decade. Results shown in the studies cover a range of drugs including opiates, cocaine, cannabis and polydrug use, and prevalence is estimated for a range of inmate sub-populations: injectors, males, females, youth. A further, more complete table is available in the Annex to the bulletin.

  • Table Prison-1. Prevalence of lifetime use of various drugs among prisoners (estimated percentage)
  • Table Prison-2. Prevalence of lifetime injecting drug use among prisoners (estimated percentage)
  • Table Prison-3. Prevalence of drug use within prison among prisoners (estimated percentage)
  • Table Prison-4. Prevalence of injecting drug use within prison among prisoners (estimated percentage)
  • Annex Table Prison-5. Overall table showing the prevalence of drug use among prisoners in EU countries and Norway (%)

Bibliography

This last table of the section gives the source bibliographic references for the studies reported in Tables Prison-1 to Prison-4.

  • Table Prison-0. Prevalence of drug use among prisoners - Sources and Bibligraphic References