 Behavioural change amongst drug injectors in Scottish prisonsD. Shewan, M. Gemmell and J. B. Davies Social Science & Medicine, 1994, vol. 39, issue 11, 1585-1586 Abstract: A study of injecting behaviour amongst a purposive sample of drug-users in Scottish prisons found that 32% reported injecting prior to current sentence. The percentage of these who were injecting during their current prison sentence (i.e. inside the prison) had fallen to 11%. Of those who were injecting prior to imprisonment, 24% reported sharing injecting equipment at that time. Of those who were still injecting in prison, however, 76% reported sharing equipment. Overall, therefore, there were fewer injectors in prison, but a higher proportion of these shared needles. Factors most closely identified with current sharing of injecting equipment in prison were: (a) having injected a wider range of drugs in prison (during both current and previous sentences); (b) frequency of Temgesic use; and (c) being prescribed methadone in the community, then having that prescription discontinued on entry to prison. Keywords: drug; injecting; prison; risk; HIV (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:39:y:1994:i:11:p:1585-1586 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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