Methadone maintenance treatment reduces heroin injection in New South Wales prisons

References

• Ward J, Mattick R, Hall W. Key issues in methadone maintenance treatment. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 1992
   Google Scholar
• Joseph H. The criminal justice system and opiate addiction: a historical perspective. Compulsory treatment of drug abuse: research and clinical practice. Research monograph, C Leukfeld, F Tims. US Department of Health, Rockville 1988, In
   Google Scholar
• Metzger DS, Woody GE, McLellan T, O'Brien CP, et al. HIV seroconversion among intravenous drug users in and out of treatment: an 18 month prospective follow up. JAIDS 1993; 6: 1049–1055
   Google Scholar
• Caplehorn JRM, Ross MW. Methadone maintenance and the likelihood of risky needle-sharing. Int J Addict 1995; 30: 685–698
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hubbard RL, French MT. New perspectives on the benefit-cost and cost-effectiveness of drug abuse treatment. Economic costs, cost-effectiveness, financing and community-based drug treatment, National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Monograph Series (113). US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville, MD 1991; 94–113, In
   Google Scholar
• Ball JC, Ross A. The effectiveness of methadone maintenance treatment: patients, programs, services and outcome. Springer-Verlag, New York 1991
   Google Scholar
• Hall W, Ward J, Mattick R. Methadone maintenance treatment in prisons: the New South Wales experience. Drug Alcohol Rev 1993; 12: 193–203
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Magura S, Rosenblum A, Lewis C, Joseph H. The effectiveness of in-jail methadone maintenance. J Drug Issues 1993; 23: 75–99
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dolan K, Wodak A. An international review of methadone provision in prisons. Addict Res 1996; 4: 85–97
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crofts N, Webb-Pullman J, Dolan K. An analysis of trends over time in social and behavioural factors related to the transmission of HIV among IDUs and prison inmates. AGPS, Canberra 1996
   Google Scholar
• Gaughwin MD, Douglas RM, Wodak AD. Behind bars—risk behaviours for HIV transmission in prisons, a review. HIV/AIDS and prisons conference proceedings, J Norberry, SA Gerull, MD Gaughwin. Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra 1991, In
   Google Scholar
• Taylor A, Goldberg D, Emslie J, Wrench J, Gruer L, Cameron S, Black J, Davis B, McGregor J, Follett E, Harvey J, Basson J, McGavigan J. Outbreak of HIV infection in a Scottish Prison. Br Med J 1995; 310: 289–292
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Choopanya K, Des Jarlias D, Vanichseni S, Raktham S, Kitayaporn D. Incarceration as a continuing HIV risk factor among injecting drug users in Bangkok. Presented at the IX International Conference on AIDS. 1996; 2: 47–47, abstract no. WeD 352
   Google Scholar
• Dolan K, Wodak A, Hall W, Gaughwin M, Rae F. HIV risk behaviour before, during and after imprisonment in New South Wales. Addict Res 1996; 4: 151–160
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Darke S, Hall W, Heather N, Ward J, Wodak A. The reliability and validity of a scale to measure HIV risk-taking behaviour among intravenous drug users. AIDS 1991; 5: 181–185
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• George JR. Serological assays for human immunodeficiency virus antibody in dried blood specimens collected on filter paper from neonates. US Department of Health and Human Services—Public Health Service, Centers for Diseases Control. 1989
   Google Scholar
• Maskill WJ, Silvester C, Healey DS. Application of protein blotting to the serodiagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus infection. Protein blotting methodology, research and diagnostic applications, BA Baldo, ER Tovey. Karger, Basel, In
   Google Scholar
• Corrections Health Service. Achieving excellence in health care. Annual report. Sydney 1996, 1995/96
   Google Scholar
• Armstrong BK, White E, Saracci R. Principles of exposure measurement in epidemiology. Oxford Medical Publications, New York 1992
   Google Scholar
• Dye S, Isaacs C. Intravenous drug misuse among prison inmates: implications for spread of HIV. Br Med J 1991; 302: 1506–1506
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dolan K, Wodak A, Penny R. AIDS behind bars: Preventing HIV spread among incarcerated drug injectors. AIDS 1995; 9: 825–832
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McLellan AT. Patient characteristic associated with outcome. Research on the treatment of narcotic addiction: state of the art, JR Cooper, F Althman, BS Brown, D Czechowicz. NIDA, US Department of Health And Human Sciences, Maryland 1983, In
   Google Scholar
• Grella CE, Anglin MD, et al. Reasons for discharge from methadone maintenance for addicts at high risk of HIV infection or transmission. J Psychoactive Drugs 1994; 26: 223–232
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Torrens M, Castillo C, Perez-Sola V. Retention in a low threshold methadone maintenance program. Drug Alcohol Depend 1996; 41: 55–59
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• National Institute on Drug Abuse. Community Alert Bulletin. NIDA US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD March, 1993, 25
   Google Scholar
• Dolan K, Hall W, Wodak A. Bleach availability and risk behaviour in prison in New South Wales. Technical Report No 22. National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Sydney, Sydney 1994
   Google Scholar
• Dolan K, Shearer J, Hall W, Wodak A. Bleach is easier to obtain but inmates are still risk infection in New South Wales Prisons. Technical Report. National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Sydney 1996
   Google Scholar
• Dolan K, Rutter S, Wodak A, Hall W, Maher L, Dixon D. Is syringe exchange feasible in a prison setting?. Med J Aust 1996; 164: 508–508
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Dolan KA, Hall W, Wodak A. Methadone maintenance reduces injecting in prison. Br Med J 1996; 312: 1162–1162
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Butler T, Dolan K, Ferson M, McGuiness L, Brown P, Robertson P. Hepatitis B and C in New South Wales prisons. Prevalence and risk factors. Med J Aust 1997; 166: 127–130
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar