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Complications: - high risk of mortality among recently released prisoners [1] - drugs, cardiovascular disease, homicide, suicide - opioid overdose was an especially common cause of early mortality [2]

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incarceration infection control in correctional facilities

References

  1. Binswanger IA et al, Release from prison - A high risk of death for former inmates. N Engl J Med 2007, 356:157 PMID: 17215533
  2. Binswanger IA et al. Mortality after prison release: Opioid overdose and other causes of death, risk factors, and time trends from 1999 to 2009. Ann Intern Med 2013 Nov 5; 159:592 PMID: 24189594 http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1763230