Women

This seminar explored why it is important to study sex and gender differences in people who inject drugs, with reference to examples relevant to hepatitis C risk and the cascade of care. It included an overview of why we study sex and...

The UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia in collaboration with Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, UNODC HQ held a Regional Training of Trainers (ToT) on Course 20 – “Populations with Special Clinical Needs” which took place...

ISSUP Kenya presents their webinar on Women, Religion, Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Stigma.

ISSUP are pleased to present their webinar on Children and families affected by parental drug use.

Sexual and gender minority individuals face marked disparities in substance use. This narrative review explores research on substance use in sexual and gender minority communities. The authors define the sexual and gender minority...

Abstract Importance A previous meta-analysis of the association between alcohol use and all-cause mortality found no statistically significant reductions in mortality risk at low levels of consumption compared with lifetime nondrinkers...

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted healthcare and substance use services engagement, including primary and mental health services as well as residential and outpatient drug treatment. Women who inject drugs (WWID) face...

Drinking alcohol during pregnancy is associated with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), and women who drink at higher levels are more likely to have a baby with FASD. Efforts to better understand and respond to ‘high risk’ drinking...

A publication on predictors of substance use disorder symptoms among women in Katsina State, Nigeria.

ISSUP Italy are pleased to present their Webinar on How early exposure to cannabis misshapes the brain and exerts long-lived effects.