Format
Scientific article
Publication Date
Published by / Citation
Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses. [UK] HM Inspectorate of Prisons, 2015
Keywords
England
Wales
prison
illegal drugs
spice
synthetic cannabis
treatment
drug testing
enforcement
rehabilitation programmes

Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses

Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy and operational responses were seen as insufficiently flexible and dynamic, though treatment had “dramatically” improved. Read more...