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International Women's Day: Exploring gender-sensitive approaches to drug-related issues

Today, International Women’s Day , the European Drugs Winter School ( EDWS ) draws to a close, having explored the theme of ‘Gender-sensitive approaches to drug-related issues'. During the course, the following...

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Women and Drugs (SICAD webinar)

Women and Drugs ( Mulheres e drogas ) is the topic of the webinar organised by the EMCDDA's Portuguese Focal Point, General- Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (SICAD) on...

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Women and drugs — need to scale up gender-sensitive services in Europe

Women make up approximately a quarter of all people with serious drug problems in Europe and around one-fifth of all entrants to drug treatment. Yet much still needs to be done to...

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Symposium on gender and drugs - Lisbon Addictions side event

The drug phenomenon has often been addressed as gender neutral, although sex and gender play an important role in: pathways to drug use, behaviours, correlates and harms of drug use and drug...

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EMCDDA expert meeting

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EMCDDA webinar: Women and drugs in Europe — why gender matters

Recording of the EMCDDA webinar: 'Women and drugs in Europe — why gender matters?' held 30 March 2022.

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EMCDDA webinar: Women and drugs in Europe — why gender matters

Description: This webinar will explore recent patterns and trends in drug use among women in Europe and the role played by gender in influencing women’s consumption behaviours across settings and the life...

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International Women’s Day

The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2022 is “ Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow ”. The announcement was made on the United Nations website.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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