Fifty to sixty percent of Dutch detainees use drugs or has done so in the past. Drug use often continues within detention facilities. Infectious diseases can be transferred anywhere but pose more of a risk in prison.
Direct contact with substance users enables outreach workers from Mainline to point out and analyse new developments in different user groups. Mainline also conducts small-scale research to monitor the needs of different user groups, for which outreach workers gather data in the field.
Fifty to sixty percent of Dutch detainees use drugs or has done so in the past. Drug use often continues within detention facilities. Infectious diseases can be transferred anywhere but pose more of a risk in prison where people live closely together. Drug use can be more harmful in these circumstances.
Mainline works from Georgia to Indonesia, and from Serbia to Pakistan. All these countries have different goals in public health policy...
We participate in the European collaboration project Correlation II - European Network Social Inclusion & Health...