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Mandatory drug tests in prisons

BMJPublished 4 March 1995Open access
S M Gore, A G Bird
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The recent report on Styal prison by the Inspectorate of Prisons highlights the problem of women who start to inject drugs during incarceration, calls for quantitative research on illicit drug taking, and recommends a “clinical model” of drug reduction.

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