Drug use and re-imprisonment: A prospective study of the Norwegian Offender Mental Health and Addiction (NorMA) cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Re-imprisonments are common among people in prison who use drugs. This study aims to describe sociodemographic factors, mental health and level of pre-prison substance use in a cohort of people in prison, and to investigate re-imprisonment during follow-up according to their level of pre-prison drug use.

Methods

This was a prospective study using baseline data from the Norwegian Offender Mental Health and Addiction (NorMA) cohort (n = 733) recruited in 2013-2014 linked to data from the Norwegian Prison Registry and the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry. Self-reported drug use before imprisonment was measured at baseline using the Drug Use Disorder Identification Test (DUDIT). The outcome of interest was re-imprisonment examined using Cox regression. We excl

SUBMITTER: Lokdam NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9948910 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature