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World Drug Report 2018

The UNODC World Drug Report is published annually and is considered a reference work on the global drug situation. It structured as a a series of five booklets, each focused on a different aspect of the drug problem. The EMCDDA contributes information and data to the report. We strongly recommend...

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Psychiatric comorbidity and intimate partner violence among women who inject drugs in Europe: a cross-sectional study

This scientific article was one of the 2018 EMCDDA scientific award winners, which celebrates scientific writing and distinguishes high-quality research in the field of illicit drugs. This article won award in the category 'Psychiatric comorbidity and intimate partner violence among women who...

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Women who use drugs: Issues, needs, responses, challenges and implications for policy and practice

In the European Union 34.8 million women aged 15 to 64 are reported to have ever tried an illicit drug, compared with 54.3 million men. Women who use drugs face a number of issues that vary in extent and nature compared with those experienced by their male counterparts. They have greater...

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Gender and regional differences in client characteristics among substance abuse treatment clients in the Europe

Gender differences are an important aspect of substance abuse treatment (Wiechelt, 2008). Although there are more men than women in substance abuse treatment, which is mostly attributable to a higher male-to-female gender ratio among problem drug users, women drug users may have special needs...

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Sexual assaults facilitated by drugs or alcohol

Over the past 10 years, the numbers of cases of what is commonly termed ‘date rape’ by the mass media and ‘drug-facilitated sexual assault’ (DFSA) in the scientific literature has increased. According to population surveys from six European countries, up to 20% of women in Europe have experienced...

Drug use and pregnancy – challenges for public health

Problem drug use (defined by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) as “injecting drug use or long duration/regular use of opioids, cocaine and/or amphetamines” [1]) and pregnancy affect a sizeable population in Europe. It is estimated that there are about 1.3-1.7...

Ethnic minority women and drug use

In Berlin on 30-31 January 2007, the European Commission launched the Year of Equal Opportunities for All, which “seeks to make people in the European Union more aware of their rights to equal treatment and a life free of discrimination.” In this context, and in conjunction with Women’s Day on 8...

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