“…Our finding that mental health, substance use, and pain management were major concerns for people on release from custody is consistent with other research [20,21,25,28,46]. Similarly, other studies have also identified stigma and discrimination [17,[19][20][21]26,28], competing priorities such as housing and employment [17][18][19][20][21][22][23], lacking access to health care and other services [17,21,22,25,26], and lack of continuity of care on release [17,21,22,24,25,40,47] as barriers to health on release. Several studies corroborate our findings regarding facilitators of health on release, including support from family and friends, access to social services, convenient and accessible health services including for opioid agonist treatment such as methadone, and service providers [17,19,23,26,40].…”