Sunday, October 15, 2006

Explosive report reveals true extent of prison drug abuse epidemic / Sunday Herald, 15 Oct 2006

http://www.sundayherald.com/58500
Liam McDougall
A new 265-page report has revealed the grim extent of drug abuse within the Scottish prison system. The result of two years of work by a research team led by Dr David Shewan at Glasgow Caledonian University, it garnered views directly from prison inmates and addiction staff about the scale of the drugs epidemic and how it should be tackled. This week the explosive findings from the study – commissioned by the Scottish Prison Service to inform its policy and considered the most in-depth study of its kind – are made public for the first time by the Sunday Herald."