Use of community healthcare and overdose in the 30 days following release from provincial correctional facilities in British Columbia

“We don’t even know where it’s kept”: exploring perspectives on naloxone administration by provincial correctional workers in Manitoba, Canada

“…This may be more easily accomplished if collaborative relationships were established and then maintained with other service providers and community stakeholders, including those specializing in harm reduction. Such a practice would also bolster community partnerships with correctional services that may help ensure adequate healthcare resources, education, take-home naloxone kits and so forth are available following prisoner release (McLeod et al, 2021a(McLeod et al, / 2021b.…”

“…Not only may prisoners experience hesitation towards harm reduction by frontline staff in prisons, but research shows there is often little follow-up in the community after their release (McLeod et al , 2021a). McLeod et al (2021a) and Bozinoff et al (2018) recommend community healthcare visits after release from custody to provide overdose prevention and harm reduction supports and to facilitate better connection to primary healthcare during the transition to community living, since the weeks and months after release from incarceration can embody a period of high risk for overdose (Gan et al , 2021; see also Ricciardelli et al , 2021 for information on the lack of continuity in care for people who were incarcerated in select provinces and territories).…”