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Table 1 People with opioid use disorder living in prison, who receive OST. Overview of the individual German federal states ([10, 14,15,16,17] and “Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe”)

From: Opioid substitution therapy for people living in German prisons—inequality compared with civic sector

Federal State

Year of evaluation

Number of people living in prison in the reference year

Approx. number of people with opioid disorder living in prison (reported number, or 30% of total people living in prison)

People with opioid use disorder living in prison, who receive OST, N (approx. %)

Bremen

2018

620

186

90–120 (48–65%)

North Rhine-Westphalia

2018

16,219

3660

2048 (56%)

Schleswig-Holstein

2018

1150

350

130–150 (37–43%)

Hamburg

2018

1900

570

150–200 (26–35%)

Hesse

2018

4600

1380

430 (31%)

Berlin

2018

3050

915

246 (27%)

Lower Saxony

2018

4750

1425

310 (22%)

Saarland

2018

765

230

27 (12%)

Rhineland-Palatinate

2018

3050

915

105 (11%)

Baden-Wuerttemberg

2018

7390

1832

168 (9%)

Sachsen-Anhalt

2018

1566

470

36 (8%)

Thuringia

2018

1500

450

30 (7%)

Bavaria

2018

11,000

3300

240 (7%)

Brandenburg

2018

1000

300

9 (3%)

Saxony

2018

3400

1020

10 (<1%)

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Not available