... on health care, crime and lost productivity, it is estimated that the costs of social and economic harm due to alcohol use are £21.5bn, while harm from illicit drug use is estimated to cost £10.7bn (Public Health England, 2018). Thus, it is critical that services are aware of and responsive to the risk...

...Hannah Cinamon; Richard Bradshaw In the last four years health services in public sector prisons in England have undergone a period of rapid reform and modernisation. Before this, prisoners' health care was characterised by over‐medicalisation, isolation from the NHS, and lack of education...

...Tish Lane‐Morton The quality and relevance of what happens in prisons are measurably improved once prisons are seen, and have to act, as an integral part of society and the community. The provision of health care has benefited a great deal from the involvement of national and local agencies whose...