Drug and Alcohol Findings bridges the divide between research on the effectiveness of responses to drug and alcohol problems and the practitioners who provide those interventions.

The Drug and Alcohol Finding Focus on Women aims to explore how women’s substance use problems, needs and outcomes differ from those of men. Here you can find a collection of interventions that further our understanding of how sex and gender can influence the course of addiction and treatment.

For IWD2021, the The Drug and Alcohol Findings team have added two new studies to the Effectiveness Bank that evaluate...

EMCDDA has developed a variety of resources on women and drug use including publications, data, news, events and reports.

You can also access the best practice portal, which provides an overview of the European picture and options to tailor services to best meet the needs of women requiring support.

This report provides a brief summary of some of the challenges, old and new, that women and girls face in the context of the tobacco epidemic in the WHO European Region, outlining the gendered nature of tobacco use and exposure and how the tobacco industry continues to target them through gendered messaging. It also provides recommendations for approaches and policy interventions that take a gender lens to tobacco control.

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) strongly underpins gender equality and highlights the importance of addressing gender-specific risks. This...

The current article provides a summary of biopsychosocial gender differences in alcohol use disorder (AUD), then reviews existing literature on gender differences in treatment access, retention, outcomes, and longer-term recovery. Among psychotherapies for AUD, there is support for the efficacy of providing female-specific treatment and for female-only treatment settings, but only when female-specific treatment is included. However, despite mandates from the National Institutes of Health to do so, there is little work thus far that directly compares genders on outcomes of specific...

Публикация

Это руководство помогает поставщикам медицинских услуг предлагать лечение женщинам, живущим с расстройствами, связанными с употреблением психоактивных веществ. В нем рассматриваются гендерно-ориентированные исследования и передовая практика, такие как общие модели первоначального использования и конкретные вопросы и стратегии лечения.