Opioid Substitution Treatment in Custodial Settings - A Practical Guide

The guide, recently published by BIS-Verlag with the support from WHO and UNODC, aims at providing a reference document supporting prison doctors, prison health care workers, prison administration, NGOs and others in delivering or supporting substitution treatment to opioid dependent prisoners. 

The full document can be downloaded at http://www.archido.de/index.php?lang=en

Disrupting the supply of illicit drugs into prisons. A report from NOMS in the UK

As part of the UK Government's reforming penal policy announcement, a review into disrupting the supply of illicit drugs into prisons was commissioned by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and completed by David Blakey in May 2008.

International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking – 26 June 2008 – the position of the EU

"Fighting the drug problem effectively requires strategies that are based on facts and that can be adapted to respond to new situations; this is not about ideology or political dogma, but rather choosing actions that work in practice" said Vice-President Barrot, in charge of justice, freedom and security at the European Commission in the occasion of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. 

Find out more about the EU policy in the drugs field at: http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/life_style/drug/press_drug_en.htm

Heuni publishes a comparative study on service provision for detainees with problematic drug and alcohol use in police detention.