Nearly 72 per cent of those with mental-health and addiction problems returned to prison and 70 per cent of people with addictions alone returned within three years of release, study says
A new study of thousands of inmates at BC Corrections facilities has found drug addictions were the single strongest predictor for someone to be sent back behind bars within three years of their release, a conclusion that experts say underscores the need to improve treatment options in and out of jail.Dalhousie University
or addiction problems, people with one or the other, and those battling concurrent mental-health and substance-use disorders.addiction Their epidemiological study challenges the perception that mental illness alone causes criminal behaviour, Dr. Butler said.
Those with a prescribed dose of safer-supply drugs are kept on this plan and other addicted inmates are assessed to see if they need similar prescriptions, the statement said.
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