Women and Substance Use: Current Status, Future Directions

Marilyn Clark; Anna Maria Vella

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Chapter 7 Women and Substance Use

Current Status, Future Directions

In: Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field

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Pages:: 117–131

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507654_008

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Abstract

An important requirement for successful policy and practice responses to drug use and substance use and related disorders that foster wellbeing is to consider the impact of gender. Women experience different addiction career pathways to men and consequently face different intervention and reintegration challenges. While in Europe, drug use, and especially problematic use, is more prevalent among men than women, the gender gap may be narrowing. However, female substance users show differing patterns of use and related problems tend to develop more rapidly than men. Often their drug use related problems develop in the context of an intimate relation with a male drug user. The health correlates emanating from problem drug use are also gendered. Lower and more covert drug use amongst women has resulted in less knowledge about the development of problematic substance use amongst women and consequently women may find it harder to access treatment programmes developed with their needs in mind. Female substance users are often exposed to social vulnerability and violence. The different addiction career trajectories present a challenge of developing appropriate responses for women that adequately and effectively address women’s specific needs and wellbeing. This chapter will engage with the gendered dimension of problem drug use. A focus on the Maltese context and implications for wellbeing will be maintained.

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Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field

Series: Studies in Inclusive Education, Volume: 51

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004507654

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 02 Mar 2022

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Front Matter

Acknowledgements

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Adolescents and Emerging Adults

Chapter 1 Promoting Resilience and Wellbeing in Children and Young People

Chapter 2 “Teachers Teach Me, You Help Me Grow!”

Chapter 3 Preparing Our Students to Leap

Chapter 4 Social Wellbeing as a Contributor to Young People’s Leisure

Part 2 Professional Issues

Chapter 5 Promoting Wellbeing

Chapter 6 Reflective Practice and Reflexivity for Developing Practitioner Wellbeing

Part 3 Gender Perspectives

Chapter 7 Women and Substance Use

Chapter 8 Re-writing Motherhood

Chapter 9 Desperately Seeking Wellbeing

Part 4 Systemic Perspectives

Chapter 10 Civil Society Should Be a Strong Political Force

Chapter 11 Families and Poverty in European Malta

Part 5 Reflections on Wellbeing

Chapter 12 Translating Transcultural Wellbeing into Practice

Chapter 13 Residents’ Perceptions of Dignity in Nursing Homes for Older Persons

Chapter 14 Wellbeing in Corrections

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