Ben Hughes
Essex County Council, UK
Publications
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Research Article
Continuity-of-Care for Substance Misusing Prison Leavers: A Quantitative Analysis of Service Delivery Models Within a Local Setting
Author(s): Marc Connor* and Ben Hughes
Introduction: This study tests our assumption that prison-to-community continuity-of-care increases drug treatment engagement rates and reduces waiting times, hypothesis one (H1). Engaging with drug treatment services may improve health and crime out- comes for this vulnerable population. The study also aims to determine whether a single service delivery model, spanning both prison and community settings, improves these metrics, hypothesis 2 (H2). Method: Over a four-year period, the instances of continuity-of-care, prison release, and treatment start dates were recorded for individuals with substance misuse issues released to a local drug recovery partnership (n=808). All participants were monitored for 365 days after their first release (H1). A subset of this group (n=533), released through the local adult male prison to the local drug tre.. Read More»