Samantha Treacy

• PhD Student at Swansea University

Objectives Workplace stigmatisation and discrimination are significant barriers to accessing employment opportunities, reintegration and promotion in the workforce for people with mental illnesses in comparison to other disabilities. This paper presents qualitative evidence of anticipated and experienced workplace stigma and discrimination among in...

Background The number of older people in prison is growing. As a result, there will also be more prisoners suffering from dementia. The support and management of this population is likely to present multiple challenges to the prison system. Objectives To examine the published literature on the care and supervision of people living in prison with...

Background Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in health and social care research is increasingly prevalent and is promoted in policy as a means of improving the validity of research. This also applies to people living in prison and using social care services. Whilst evidence for the effectiveness of PPI was limited and reviews of its application...

Objectives: To apply and evaluate dementia-friendly community (DFC) principles in prisons. Design: A pilot study and process evaluation using mixed methods, with a 1-year follow-up evaluation period. Setting: Two male prisons: a category C sex offender prison (prison A) and a local prison (prison B). Participants: 68 participants—50 prisoners, 1...

Background: The number of older prisoners has risen exponentially over the last two decades, especially in high-income countries. Due to the increased and somewhat inadequately met health and social care needs of this group of prisoners, coupled with their vulnerability arising from higher levels of isolation, poverty and exploitation, financial c...

Objective This pilot study evaluated the effect of the Connecting People Intervention (CPI) on access to social capital, social inclusion, and mental well-being. Method A prospective one-group pretest –posttest preexperimental study of 155 people with a mental health problem or a learning disability receiving care and support from health and socia...

Background: Personal budgets are a key policy priority in adult social care in England and are expected to become increasingly important in the care of adults with mental health problems. Aims: This article systematically reviews evidence for the effectiveness of personal budgets for people with mental health problems across diverse outcomes. M...

The National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS) is a prospective, multi-site treatment outcome study of drug misusers in the UK. This paper reports the characteristics and problems of male and female clients at intake to treatment, and changes in substance use, health problems, and criminal behaviour at follow-up. The sample comprised 753 sub...

The National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS) is a longitudinal, multisite, prospective cohort study that assesses changes in illicit drug use and other problems after treatment in national (UK) drug misuse treatment programmes. Clients were recruited from 54 residential and community-based drug treatment programmes throughout England. Four...

This paper investigates injecting, shared use of needles/syringes and sexual risk behaviours at intake to treatment and at one-year follow-up among 753 drug users recruited to the National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS). Injecting, sharing and having unprotected sex were substantially reduced among clients admitted to methadone programmes...

The National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS) is a longitudinal, multisite, prospective cohort study that assesses changes in illicit drug use and other problems after treatment in national (UK) drug misuse treatment programmes. Clients were recruited from 54 residential and community-based drug treatment programmes throughout England. Four...

The opportunity to study deaths as they occur within the framework of a prospective cohort study is relatively uncommon. This study investigates deaths among drug misusers over a 4-year period, with specific attention to the circumstances and causes of death, and risk factors for mortality. The study also critically examines the recording of drug-r...

This paper provides a detailed analysis of the 2-year outcomes for 351 drug misusers allocated on an intention-to-treat basis to methadone maintenance or methadone reduction treatments. Both groups showed substantial reductions in their use of illicit drugs and in other outcome areas. However, whereas most methadone maintenance patients received ma...

To investigate regional variations across England in routes of administration for heroin, non-prescribed methadone, non-prescribed benzodiazepines, cocaine powder, crack cocaine and amphetamines. A survey of 1053 clients recruited to 54 residential and community drug misuse programmes. Structured face-to-face interviews conducted with clients at ad...

Aims: To investigate regional variations across England in routes of administration for heroin, non-prescribed methadone, non-prescribed benzodiazepines, cocaine powder, crack cocaine and amphetamines. Design, setting, participants: A survey of 1053 clients recruited to 54 residential and community drug misuse programmes. Measurements: Structu...