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Correctional Health Care, Reentry & Diversion Services

The corrections health care, re-entry, and diversion market is defined as the provision of medical and behavioural health services to the incarcerated, services to ease the transition back into the community, and diversion services related to decreasing or avoiding jail time for certain offences. The corrections market faces a number of challenges including the high number of individuals with serious mental illness, an increasingly female population, providing adequate care, and helping former inmates adapt and succeed in the community.


A monthly injectable formulation of extended-release buprenorphine may reduce staffing time and associated costs for treating opioid use disorder (OUD) in correctional settings, according to a simulation model. The model estimated staffing time and costs required to administer medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) to 100 incarcerated individuals per month. Monthly hours for clinical professionals to administer and observe dosing and for security staff to accompany inmates ranged from 63 hours for Sublocade (17 clinical… Read