Availability of Drug Treatment In Prisons

"In 2011, the implementation of the Specific program of psycho-social assistance addressed to the drugs consuming persons or with consuming history persons detained in prison (program that implies the multidisciplinary approach – teacher, psychologist, social worker and physician), being registered 772 beneficiaries, persons deprived of liberty.
"At the same time, within the project “Creation of three therapeutic communities in the Jilava, Rahova and Târg?or penitentiaries”, implemented by the National Administration of Penitentiaries, in partnership with the Probation Directorate within the Ministry of Justice, the National Anti-drug Agency along with its entire territorial structure, respectively the Drug Prevention, Evaluation and Counselling Centres, the Phoenix Foundation of Haga and the Ministry of Justice of Norway, in 2011, the putting into operation of the therapeutic communities was succeeded. Until the end of the reference year, a number of 154 inmates were medically, psychologically and socially tested, out of which 102 went through the therapeutic community program (66 persons in the Bucharest - Jilava Penitentiary, 22 of the Bucharest - Rahova Penitentiary and 14 from the Târg?or Penitentiary) 166.
"In a manner similar to the previous year, during 2011, a number of 60 persons deprived of liberty were included within the methadone substitution program, carried out within the project “Access increase of the persons deprived of liberty to programs of decreasing risks related to drugs consumption”. As mentioned in the previous report, 2011 was the last year when the methadone substitution program carried out in the prison system was financed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and beginning with 2012 the National Administration of Penitentiaries started to ensure the methadone purchase of its own funds, following the non-inclusion of the prison-hospital units on the list of units that can perform the toxico-dependencies treatment subprogram, within the National Program of Mental Health, financed by the Ministry of Health."