High concentrations of users in prison
Prisons have exceptionally high concentrations of problematic drug users, with estimates suggesting  that around 80 per cent of people going into prison have used drugs and around 55 per cent are problem drug users.
Answer to Parliamentary Question, 19 July 2006.
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