There is considerable concern about rates of drug-related mortality in the United Kingdom. Studies have suggested that recently released offenders are a group at high risk of dying from drug-related causes. To obtain more information about the extent and nature of drug-related mortality among newly released prisoners in England and Wales, the Home Office commissioned the Office for National Statistics to undertake a research project in collaboration with the National Addiction Centre (Singleton et al., 2003). The Singleton et al. study for the first time provided an empirical estimation of drug-related mortality risk among sentenced prisoners in the early phase of release from prison in England and Wales in 1999. To examine the trend in drug-related deaths over a longer period, the Home Office commissioned a replication, with some revision, of the Singleton et al. study, extended to cover prisoners released in two further years, 1998 and 2000.
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