Substance use disorders, severe mental illness and risk of reoffending among women released from prison: a national cohort study.

Vegard Svendsen, Marianne Riksheim Stavseth, Torbjørn Skardhamar, Ingrid Amalia Havnes, Anne Bukten

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

Drug use among people in prison: A global review of epidemiology, harms and interventions.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026
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A Scoping Review of Interventions and Available Programs for Justice-Involved Women with Substance Use Disorders.Current psychiatry reports · 2026
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Vegard SvendsenNorwegian Centre for Addiction Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. v.t.svendsen@medisin.uio.no.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5802-7482

Marianne Riksheim StavsethNorwegian Centre for Addiction Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9324-6194

Torbjørn SkardhamarDepartment of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5589-8570

Ingrid Amalia HavnesDivision of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1070-0065

Anne BuktenNorwegian Centre for Addiction Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0285-5339

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Women with a clinical history of a severe mental illness (SMI) or multiple mental disorders involving substance use disorder (SUD) might be at increased risk of re-offending after release from prison. This retrospective cohort study merged data from the Norwegian prison release study (nPRIS) with other registry sources. All women released from a Norwegian prison between 2011-2019 were followed for two years after date of release. Adjusting for several known risk factors, we used logistic regression to estimate risk of violent (VR), drug-related (DR) or other reoffending (ORE) after release among women with a history of SUD and severe mental illness (SUD-SMI), SMI, SUD and other mental illness (SUD-OMI) or a history of multiple SUDs (POLY-SUD) in comparison to a reference population with no history of such disorders or combination of disorders. Relative to the reference population, after adjusting for other relevant risk factors, women with a history of SUD-SMI (OR

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Mental DisordersPrisonersSubstance-Related DisordersAdultCohort StudiesFemaleHumansMiddle AgedNorwayRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsViolenceYoung AdultDual disordersPrisonPsychiatric comorbidityRecidivismSubstance use disordersWomen’s health

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PMID40316570

DOI10.1038/s41598-025-00215-y

PMCPMC12048692

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