§ Lord Chadlingtonasked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by the Baroness Scotland of Asthal on 8 September (WA 35), what work is being done inside prisons to help the 31 per cent of prisoners who were opiate users before conviction. [HL27]
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§ The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Scotland of Asthal)A comprehensive range of drug treatment services is available to drug misusers in prisons, including opiate misusers. These services include: detoxification (a clinical service which is available at all local/remand prisons); counselling, assessment, referral, advice and through-care services (CARATs)—a low-level intervention that provides a gateway assessment, referral and support service to prisoners both within custody and upon their initial release and is available at all prisons; and intensive drug treatment programmes (60 of which are available across the prison estate).