Objective: Drug poisoning deaths among women remain a challenge for public health policy
and have increased at a higher rate relative to men. Although biological, social, and …

Background There is growing evidence on the importance of a gendered understanding of
recovery. Gender differences have been reported in relation to the nature and extent of …

Recovery is now the defining feature of UK drug and alcohol policy. Despite this policy
emphasis, little attention has been paid to the lived experience of those in recovery. Instead …

Ahmed, S.(2004). The cultural politics of emotion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Albers, E.(2010, April). The production of stigma by the disease model of addiction: why drug …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons and risk factors that explain
the threefold increase in drug-related deaths from 267 in 1996 to 934 in 2017 in Scotland …

Objective To examine sex differences in age-standardised rates (ASR) of overall and drug-
specific drug poisoning deaths in Ireland between 2004 and 2017. Design Repeated cross …

Background Suicide by drug poisoning is potentially preventable; however, evidence on
associated risk factors by sex is limited. Aim To assist in understanding how individual and …

It is well-documented that women are less likely than men to engage in drug use, particularly
in its most harmful forms. Data for England and Ireland paint a remarkably similar picture …

After an initial publication on children whose parents use drugs in 2022, the Pompidou
Group has continued research on this topic as part of an ongoing effort to give visibility to …

More men than women die of drug poisoning deaths. However, due to biological, social, and
psychological differences between men and women it is important for evidence to be …