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Health in prisons and places of detention international conference: mental health and well-being in focus

The 2-day international conference, "Mental health and well-being in detention centres: prison health is public health", underscores the predicament that, while places of detention restrict freedom, they should never compromise people’s access...
Hybrid (Online and Amsterdam)
Conference
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Events

Technical Meeting on Prison and Drugs

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Drugs and prison represent an important area for the EMCDDA and its increasing relevance is reflected in the EU Drugs Strategy 2021-2025 and in the EMCDDA programming documents. The new EMCDDA regulation...
EMCDDA, Lisbon
Meeting
Data

Statistical Bulletin 2023 — drug use and prison

National routine information on drug use and patterns of use amongst prisoners is rare. Most of the data available in the EU come from ad-hoc studies amongst prisoners, carried out at local...
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Overview of the use of drug testing programmes in prison settings in a number of European countries

Data last updated: October 2022 Availability and status of drug testing in prison settings in Europe, October 2022   (Brackets) indicate that the status was ongoing at the time of investigation. The...
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News

EMCDDA participated in the 12th plenary meeting of the Council of Penological Cooperation (PC-CP) in Strasbourg

From 25–27 October, the EMCDDA participated in the 12th plenary meeting of the Council of Penological Cooperation (PC-CP) in Strasbourg, where it presented the findings of its Insights publication Prison and drugs...
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Events

Third European Conference on Healthcare in Prison

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Health Without Barriers — the European Federation for Prison Health — is organising its Third European Conference on Healthcare in Prison in Lisbon in the margins of Lisbon Addictions 2022. The conference...
Lisbon, Portugal
Meeting
Data

Statistical Bulletin 2022 — drug use and prison

Media library

Number of countries reporting availability of interventions targeting people who use drugs in prison in Europe, 2019

Number of countries reporting availability of interventions targeting people who use drugs in prison in Europe, 2019   Opioid agonist treatment (OAT). Information Education Training (IET). The source...
Document library

The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on drug service provision in European prisons

This paper aims to describe the impact of the COVID-19 containment measures on the provision of drug treatment and harm reduction services in European prisons in15 countries during the early phase of...
Publications
Technical reports

European Questionnaire on Drug Use among People living in prison (EQDP) (Methodological guidelines)

This report covers the methodological aspects of the European Questionnaire on Drug Use among People living in prison (EQDP). The questionnaire is the results of several years of work in the field...
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