[HTML][HTML] Women and barriers to harm reduction services: a literature review and initial findings from a qualitative study in Barcelona, Spain

S Shirley-Beavan, A Roig, N Burke-Shyne… - Harm Reduction …, 2020 - Springer
Background There are an estimated 3.2 million women who inject drugs worldwide,
constituting 20% of all people who inject drugs. The limited data that are available suggest …

[HTML][HTML] Women, drugs and HIV

T Azim, I Bontell, SA Strathdee - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Women who use drugs, irrespective of whether these are injected or not, are
faced with multiple issues which enhance their vulnerability to HIV. Methods In this …

Gendered violence and overdose prevention sites: a rapid ethnographic study during an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada

J Boyd, AB Collins, S Mayer, L Maher, T Kerr… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims North America's overdose epidemic is increasingly driven by
fentanyl and fentanyl‐adulterated drugs. Supervised consumption sites, including low …

Gender sameness and difference in recovery from heroin dependence: A qualitative exploration

J Neale, S Nettleton, L Pickering - International Journal of Drug Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
Background In recent years,'recovery'has become a central, yet controversial, concept within
the international drug and alcohol field. This paper explores gender sameness and …

Living with hepatitis C virus: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of qualitative literature

LE Dowsett, S Coward, DL Lorenzetti… - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Aims. The lived experience of HCV has not been well documented in the
literature. The aim of this systematic review was to understand the experiences of living with …

[HTML][HTML] Reductions in HIV/STI incidence and sharing of injection equipment among female sex workers who inject drugs: results from a randomized controlled trial

SA Strathdee, D Abramovitz, R Lozada, G Martinez… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background We evaluated brief combination interventions to simultaneously reduce sexual
and injection risks among female sex workers who inject drugs (FSW-IDUs) in Tijuana and …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the relapse process: exploring Iranian women's substance use experiences

M Khazaee-Pool, T Pashaei, R Nouri… - … , prevention, and policy, 2019 - Springer
Background Relapse is one of the main challenges that must be tackled in the drug
addiction treatment. Different factors contribute to the relapse process but it remains unclear …

[HTML][HTML] Contraception, punishment and women who use drugs

A Olsen, C Banwell, A Madden - BMC women's health, 2014 - Springer
Background In light of the recent debate on the use of financial incentives to promote long-
acting contraception and sterilisation among women who use illicit drugs we discuss …

[HTML][HTML] A cross-sectional study describing factors associated with utilisation of GP services by a cohort of people who inject drugs

D Nambiar, M Stoové, P Dietze - BMC health services research, 2014 - Springer
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) use healthcare services, including primary
care, at a disproportionately high rate. We investigated key correlates of general practitioner …

Punishing parents: Child removal in the context of drug use

A Olsen - Drug and alcohol review, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
New amendments to child welfare policy in N ew S outh W ales turn a spotlight on parents
who use drugs and raise concerns about adequate provision of services for families facing …