CAT/OP/POL/CSPRO/1 erroneously notes that therapy is only accessible as continuation for those who were participating in such programmes before entering the prison. 129. Patients addicted to drugs are provided with medical support offered by doctors, nursing staff and psychologists. Within the structures of penitentiary facilities there are therapeutic wards for prisoners addicted to narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances. 130. Additionally, in accordance with the Substitution Programme for Detainees in Penitentiary Facilities in Poland, apart from prisoners who continue their substitution treatment, also a detainee who was not subject to substitution treatment before being detained may start substitution treatment after satisfying the following criteria: (a) Exclusively after a place in the ‘non-custodial’ programme is guaranteed by the director of the programme; (b) Satisfying the eligibility criteria specified in the applicable legal regulation; (c) Written consent to start treatment within the programme and acceptance of the programme’s requirements. 131. Decisions on qualifications to the substitution treatment are made by the director of the programme or a medical doctor authorised by the director who perform tasks for the purposes of the programme. 132. Detainees of pre-trial detention centres and correctional facilities are informed upon admission on HIV contraction issues and take part in workshops on the harmful effects of drug use and on the mitigation of damages. 133. The Prison Service is ready to provide support to detainees with drug issues. Actions in this area have been systemically regulated by law. In accordance with the Penal Enforcement Code, the imprisonment sentence is executed within the system of programmed corrective efforts, therapeutic system and ordinary system. The therapeutic system is an exceptional solution applied to convicted persons with non-psychotic mental disorders, including persons convicted for the crime under Article 197 to 203 of the Criminal Code, committed in connection with sexual preference disorders, persons with mental impairment, as well as those addicted to alcohol or other narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances. The sentence is executed within the therapeutic system in the therapeutic ward of specific specialisation. In Polish prisons, there are 17 therapeutic wards for convicted persons addicted to narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, 33 wards for convicted persons addicted to alcohol, 23 wards for convicted persons with non-psychotic mental disorders or mentally impaired persons (in 7 of which corrective efforts are addressed to convicted persons sentenced for the crimes under Article 197 to 203 of the Penal Enforcement Code in connection with sexual preference disorders). The total capacity of wards is 3,663. In 2018, specialised therapeutic corrective efforts covered 6,036 convicted persons addicted to alcohol, 1,697 convicted persons addicted to narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances and 2,501 convicted persons with non-psychotic mental disorders or mentally impaired persons, including 469 convicted persons diagnosed with sexual preference disorders. Strip search 134. Strip search – mentioned in para. 110 of the report – is performed only if required by the reasons of security of the penitentiary facility and it serves to prevent the smuggling of unauthorised and dangerous items, drugs and alternative substances and it is aimed at ensuring the security of the prisoner searched and other prisoners, as well as the security of officers and staff members of the Prison Service, wherever the number of assaults has increased in recent periods. It should be added that strip searches are carried out based on applicable regulations and a cavity search is performed only visually and not manually. Strip searches are performed also on visitors in connection with information received by the officers of the Prison Service about the risk of smuggling unauthorised objects or narcotic drugs into penitentiary facilities or if non-disclosure of all items possessed is discovered. 135. The Prison Service works on introducing changes to the Penal Enforcement Code and the Act on Prison Service aimed at comprehensively regulating the matter of 31