starting in 1990 many programs were initiated to prevent and control the spread of hiv/aids in prisons in accordance with the policies of the ministry of health. this study attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of harm reduction programs vis-à-vis drug abuse and dependency in 7 prisons in iran.the methodology used is before-after testing and the sample population is incarcerated prisoners in 7...

The prevalence of injecting drug use rose dramatically in Europe in the 1980s; in the United Kingdom alone there are an estimated 75000-150000 injectors.' Responding to this increase and to the concomitant risk of infection with HIV, treatment agencies have adopted more flexible approaches to try to attract users to treatment and maintain contact with them.25 Gradually a broad based community a...

BACKGROUND Much work has investigated the association between substance use, crime, and recidivism, yet little scholarship has examined these associations longitudinally among samples of recently released prisoners. We examine the lagged reciprocal effects of hard substance use and crime, among other covariates, in the context of the prisoner reentry process. METHODS We rely on data from the ...

BACKGROUND Prisoners have extremely high rates of smoking with rates 3-4 times higher than the general community. Many prisoners have used heroin. The aims of this study were to investigate the impact of heroin use on smoking cessation and the social determinants of health among prisoners. METHODS Secondary analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial of a multi-component smoking cessa...

This is a study involving 15 prisoners referred for opinion and mental abnormality. Retrospective analysis of the crime and the situation prevailing helped to develop insight into the homicidal act. In the insanity related homicide, the significant differences were absence of malice aforethought, application of excessive violence, presence of impulsivity and lack of meticulous planning. Murder ...

this article is a study about investigation of relationship between social support and youth's crime. the comparison of viewpoints and different definitions of social support (ratous, kessler and heller) and crime (hirschi's social control and strain's agnew) has been performed in order to examinie and compare enjoyment level of criminal and non-criminal of ilam city youth from s...