Drug use in the year after prison.
Childhood trauma
Drug use
Incarceration
Massachusetts
Medicaid
Journal
Social science & medicine (1982)
ISSN: 1873-5347
Titre abrégé: Soc Sci Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8303205
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2019
08 2019
Historique:
received:
17
07
2018
revised:
29
05
2019
accepted:
06
06
2019
pubmed:
22
6
2019
medline:
25
8
2020
entrez:
22
6
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
With poor health and widespread drug problems in the U.S. prison population, post-prison drug use provides an important measure of both public health and social integration following incarceration. We study the correlates of drug use with data from the Boston Reentry Study (BRS), a survey of men and women interviewed four times over the year after prison release. The BRS data allow an analysis of legal and illegal drug use, and the correlation between them. We find that illegal drug use is associated with histories of drug problems and childhood trauma. Use of medications is associated with poor physical health and a history of mental illness. Legal and illegal drug use are not strongly correlated. Results suggest that in a Medicaid expansion state where health coverage is widely provided to people leaving prison, formerly-incarcerated men and women use medications, not illegal drugs, to address their health needs.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31221441
pii: S0277-9536(19)30338-7
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112357
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
112357Informations de copyright
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