EPPIC - Exchanging Prevention Practices on Polydrug Use among Youth in Criminal Justice Systems
February 13th -14th 2020
C219-20, College Building, Middlesex University, Hendon, London, NW4 4BT.
Chair: Susanne MacGregor, Honorary Professor London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
9.30-10am Welcome
People who have been incarcerated are approximately 100 times more likely to die by overdose in the first two weeks after their release than the general public. Despite high rates of opioid use disorder among justice-involved individuals, evidence-based medications exist and can be successfully implemented within jails and prisons.
The Fourteenth Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 20 to 27 April 2020.
United Nations Congresses on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice have been held every five years since 1955.
The Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology invites you to the second event in the Birmingham Criminology Seminar Series.
The workshop is part of a project funded by the Health Programme of the EU and is run in collaboration with partners in the UK (Middlesex University, Health Opportunities Team, Change Grow Live), Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Poland.