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Substance Abuse and Treatment of State and Federal Prisoners, 1997

Released on January 5, this new study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports a rise in the proportion of state inmates who used drugs (including alcohol) in the month before their arrest and an increase in use by federal inmates within prisons between 1990 and 1997. In the same period, the proportion of state inmates receiving drug abuse treatment fell from 24.5% in 1991 to 9.7% in...

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/substance-abuse-and...