Interventions to reduce harms related to drug use among people who experience incarceration: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mortality, suicide, self-harm, and substance use are elevated among people who are incarcerated. There is a wide range of heterogeneous interventions aimed at reducing these harms in this population. Previous reviews have focused on specific interventions or limited their findings to drug use and recidivism and have not explored interventions delivered after release from prison. Our aim is to examine the effect of interventions delivered to people who use drugs during incarceration or after release from incarceration, on a wide range of outcomes.

Methods

In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we searched Embase, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO databases up until Sept 12, 2023 for studies published from Jan 1, 1980 onwards. All studies evaluating the effectiveness of a

SUBMITTER: Macdonald C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11996259 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature