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Providing care for drug users in prison

An evaluation of the special anti-drugs effort within the prison service

This report describes the extent to which the special anti-drugs effort has been implemented to date and how it has been received by affected groups of prison service staff.

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Åsa Frodlund, Fredrik Marklund, Jonas Öberg
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© Brottsförebyggande rådet 2003
urn:nbn:se:bra-124

About the study

A large proportion of all drug abusers will sooner or later come into contact with the prison service. This means that the prison system constitutes one possible arena upon which to focus society´s efforts to combat drug abuse. Against this background, in 2002, the National Prison and Probation Administration was commissioned by the Swedish Government to initiate a special effort to combat drug abuse among prison service clients.