Drug use and prisons
Subtitle: an international perspective
By: edited by David Shewan and John B. Davies.
Contributors: Shewan, David.; Davies, John Booth.
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers; Harwood Academic; Marston; Brand: CRC Press; CRC Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Substance-Related Disorders.; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control.; HIV Infections -- prevention & control.; Prisoners.; Public Policy.; Prisoners -- Drug use.; Prisoners -- Medical care.; Prisoners -- Drug use -- Government policy.; Prisonniers -- Usage des drogues.; Prisonniers -- Soins médicaux.; Prisons -- Aspect sanitaire.; Prisonniers -- Santé et hygiène.; Infections à VIH -- Prévention -- Politique gouvernementale.; Sida -- Prévention -- Politique gouvernementale.; Maladies infectieuses -- Prévention -- Politique gouvernementale.
Description: "Drug Use and Prisons provides the first comprehensive account of patterns of drug use and risk behaviours in prisons, and of the different responses to this feature of prison life. Experts from Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Australia, from a variety of professional backgrounds, provide an international perspective to this ongoing problem." "In the past, prisoners were one of the 'hidden populations' of drug users. But with increasing recognition of the potential for the prison setting to act as a conduit for HIV within the prisoner population and thence into the community, failure to face this prospect is no longer an option for public health researchers or policy makers, nor for those working in the prison system."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. HIV/AIDS and drug use in prisons: Moral and legal responsibilities of prisons; title: RalfJiirgens; title: 2. Reduction of drug and HIV related harm in prison: Breaking taboos and applying public health principles; title: Joachim Nelles, Hans-Peter Hirsbrunner, Andreas Fuhrer,; title: Anja Dobler-Mikola and Timothy W. Harding; title: 3. HIV, drug use, crime and the penal system: Competing priorities in a developing country - the case of Brazil; title: John Dunn, Ronaldo R. Laranjeira and Jose Ricardo; title: P. Marins; title: 4. Drug use, drug control and drug services in German prisons: Contradictions, insufficiencies and innovative; title: approaches; title: Jutta Jacob and Heino Stover; title: 5. Substance abuse treatment services in US prisons; title: Roger H. Peters and Marc L. Steinberg; title: 6. Drug use and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan African prisons; title: Jude U. Ohaeri; title: 7. HIV, hepatitis and drugs epidemiology in prisons; title: Sheila M. Gore and A. Graham Bird; title: 8. Development of HIV/AIDS policy in the Dutch prison system; title: Maarten van Doorninck and Wouter de Jong; title: 9. Drugs and prisons: A high risk and high burden environment; title: Michael Farrell, Nicola Singleton and John Strang; title: 10. A review of risk behaviours, transmission and prevention of blood borne viral infections in Australian prisons; title: Kate Dolan and Nick Crofts; title: 11. The macro and micro logic of drugs and prisons John B. Davies and David Shewan.