Finanzierung medizinischer Leistungen in Haft

The Accessibility of Opioid Agonist Treatment and Its Forced Discontinuation in Swiss Prisons—Attitudes, Perceptions and Experiences of Defense Lawyers in Dealing With Detained Persons Using Opioids

“…Although the directives on the provision of medical heath care for persons in detention stipulate clearly that medical care has to be accessible at a lowthreshold level and should in principle be free of charge, except for some minor copayments, reality deviates from this rule. Access to health services for detainees seems to have become more complicated in recent years and physicians have to deal with additional work, such as applying for reimbursement of costs and negotiating with administrative bodies in prison or social services to provide their patients with adequate health care (67).…”

The dangers of using diagnoses outside of established psychiatric nosology in the courtroom: Analysis and discussion of current Swiss legal precedent from a medical perspective

“…Linked to this is the question as to whether the Swiss justice system would have the resources to maintain high-quality psychiatricmedical care if a steep increase in therapeutic measures should follow because of the new legal precedent. Even now, the basic medical care of offenders in Swiss prisons cannot be adequately guaranteed (Wolff & Schlup, 2020). Such an influx of offenders with court-mandated treatment who do not have a ICD/DSM diagnosis is likely to negatively affect the treatment of offenders with "classical" diagnoses such as schizophrenia, addiction, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, for which established treatment with good empirical support exists (Chang, Larsson, Lichtenstein, & Fazel, 2015;Chang, Lichtenstein, Långström, Larsson, & Fazel, 2016).…”