Drug users in prison take greater risks
Drug use can be more dangerous in prison, as people take more risks than they might on the outside, sharing needles more often and being unable to sterilise any of the other paraphernalia of injecting drug use.
A report from Glasgow Caledonian University for the Scottish Prison Service suggests that an ‘anti-injecting’ culture has developed in many prisons, making smoking heroin more common.
D Shewan et al, SPS Strategy on the management of drug misuse. Pathways and progression: an evaluation of referral, assessment and intervention, Scottish Prison Service, 2006.