Table Prison-4. Prevalence of injecting drug use within prison among prisoners (estimated percentage)
| Country | Source / ref. | Year |
Definition and methodological comments |
Drug used (and, if any, restriction on base popn.) | % IDU | |||
| Austria | 1 | 1999 | injecting drug use within prison Comment: national survey in a selection of representative prisons: 4 for male adults (n= 143), 2 for female adults (n= 69) and 5 for male youth (n=51); convicted and on remand |
(male adults) (female adults) (male youth) |
15 6 8 |
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| Belgium | 1 | 1999 | people reporting injecting drug use in prison from a daily basis to a few times per week or per month Comment: survey in two prisons (1 male prison + 1 woman section in another prison) amongst voluntary prisoners (n= 246) |
2 | ||||
| Greece | 3 | 1996 | people reporting injecting drug use while in prison Comment: survey in 10 prisons (n= 861) |
20 | ||||
| 4 | 1995 | injecting drug use in prison (based on self-reports and serum tests) Comment: survey in 2 prisons amongst convicted voluntary prisoners (n= 544) |
28 | |||||
| Hungary | 1 | 1997 | people reporting injecting drug use while in prison Comment: national survey in a sample of all prisons amongst adult male prisoners of Hungarian citizenship (n= 951) |
any illicit drug (males) | 0.2 | |||
| Ireland | 5 | 1996 | men reporting injecting heroin use while in prison (current sentence) Comment: survey in one male prison (one-fifth systematic sample) (n=108) |
heroin (males) | 34 | |||
| Latvia | 1 | 2003 | people reporting lifetime injecting drug use in prison Comment: national survey in 11 (out of 15) prisons with at least 100 convicted persons (n= 2.867) |
10 | ||||
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1998 | regular intravenous drug use in prison (based on self-reports and cross-checking in personal files) Comment: nationwide cross-sectional survey in 2 state prisons amongst the total population of prisoners (n= 362) |
28 | ||||
| 1 | 1998 | first intravenous drug use in prison (based on self-reports and cross-checking in personal files) Comment: nationwide cross-sectional survey in 2 state prisons amongst the total population of prisoners (n= 362) |
9 | |||||
| Portugal | 1 | 2001 | people reporting lifetime injecting drug use in prison Comment: natiowide survey (47 prisons) in a random sample of on remand and convicted prisoners (n=2.057) |
any illicit drug | 11 | |||
| U.K. England & Wales | 1 | 2001 | women reporting having ever injected drugs during this term of imprisonment Comment: national survey of female prisoners on remand and convicted in 10 prisons (n= 301) |
(females) | 3 | |||
| 3 | 1997-1998 | people reporting having ever injected drugs inside prison Comment: survey in 8 prisons: 6 adult male prisons (n= 2.745), 1 female prison (n= 400) and 1 male young (under 21 years) offenders prison (n= 714) |
(adult males) (females) (young males) |
7 7 1 |
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| U.K. Scotland | 9 | 2003 | people reporting having ever injected drugs during the current imprisonment Comment: national survey in 16 prisons among all prisoners available at the time of the survey (n= 4741) |
any illicit drug | 11 | |||
| 10 | 1991-1996 | men reporting having ever injected in prison Comment: survey in 6 male prisons (n=2.286) |
(males) | 18 | ||||
| 10 | 1991-1996 | women reporting having ever injected in prison Comment: survey in one female prison (n=132) |
(females) | 26 | ||||
| 10 | 1991-1996 | young offenders reporting having ever injected in prison Comment: survey in 2 young offenders institutions (n=562) |
(young offenders) | 5 | ||||
| Notes: | ||||||||
| Caution should be applied when considering that a survey is said to be 'national' as this refers to its intended geographical coverage, but does not mean it is necessarily representative of the national situation, which would depend on any sampling procedures adopted. Note that the size of the prison population surveyed is not available for most of the studies displayed in this table, and sample sizes reflect different proportions of the population in different countries. | ||||||||
| Sources: | ||||||||
| For sources and bibliographic references, refer to [Table Prison-0]. | ||||||||
