Factors Predicting Unmet Health Services Needs Among Incarcerated Substance Users

@article{Narevic2006FactorsPU,
  title={Factors Predicting Unmet Health Services Needs Among Incarcerated Substance Users},
  author={Egle Narevic and Thomas F. Garrity and Nancy E Schoenberg and Matthew L Hiller and J. Matthew Webster and Carl G. Leukefeld and Michele Staton Tindall},
  journal={Substance Use \& Misuse},
  year={2006},
  volume={41},
  pages={1077 - 1094}
}
Negative health consequences of illicit drug use, such as cardiovascular complications and infectious diseases, increase the likelihood of the need for health care. However, evidence suggests that, with the exception of emergency services, drug users generally are medically underserved. Furthermore, the effect of illicit drug use on health care utilization is becoming an especially important issue for the criminal justice system, because an increasing proportion of inmates in correctional… 
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