HL Deb 08 April 1970 vol 309 cc233-4WA
LORD O'HAGAN

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether the Prison Service has a specialised treatment unit for heroin addicts.

BARONESS SEROTA

Treatment of heroin and other drug addiction can be given at any of the larger local prisons or remand centres with full-time medical staff, and inmates can be referred to these establishments from smaller establishments. Follow-up psychiatric treatment for sentenced inmates can be arranged at Grendon and other prison service psychiatric units.