Møller, L. F., Matic, S., van den Bergh, B. J., Moloney, K., Hayton, P., & Gatherer, A. (2010). Acute drug-related mortality of people recently released from prisons. Public health, 124(11), 637–639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2010.08.012
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20888607/
This article documents the national epidemic of acute drug-related mortality of recently released individuals, providing possible response and necessary networks that can be implemented and built to address this growing crisis. This is a useful resource to ground the reader in the challenges and potential solutions that exist to the growing opioid overdose epidemic in the US.
Bottom Line: This article discusses the prevalence of overdose deaths of individuals recently released from incarceration and possible responses to this epidemic.