Burden of infectious diseases, substance use disorders, and mental illness among Ukrainian prisoners transitioning to the community.

The epidemics of incarceration, substance use disorders (SUDs), and infectious diseases are inextricably intertwined, especially in the Former Soviet Union (FSU). Few objective data documenting this relationship regionally are available. We therefore conducted a comprehensive, representative country...

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Main Authors: Lyuba Azbel, Jeffrey A Wickersham, Yevgeny Grishaev, Sergey Dvoryak, Frederick L Altice
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3602355?pdf=render