Survey of French prison found that injecting drug use and tattooing occurred

BMJ 1998;316:777 ( 7 March )

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Survey of French prison found that injecting drug use and tattooing occurred

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EDITOR $---$ Injecting drug use in prison is common in several northern European countries,¹ though the proportion of cases ofAIDS attributable to injecting drug behaviour is higher in prisonsin southeastern France (42%).² In 1996 about a fifth of the58 000 prisoners in French prisons were injecting drug users.A study in Marseilles prison (2000 prisoners) in 1992 estimatedthe seroprevalence of HIV to be 7.1% among male prisoners and13.1% among female prisoners and showed it to be higher amongpeople who had been in prison previously.³ We investigatedrisk behaviours among injecting drug users in Marseilles prison.

We invited inmates who had been in Marseilles prison for three months to answer an anonymous self administered questionnaire.Altogether 520 (55%) of 942 male and 54 (77%) of 70 female inmatesresponded; 455 inmates (410 male, 45 female) answered the questionnaireabout risky behaviours in prison. Among the 120 inmates who hadever injected drugs, 68 had injected during the 12 months . . . [Full text of this article]

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