Many women in controlling and violent relationships like Tonya's 'self-medicate' to mitigate the trauma of physical and sexual assault.
and prevention interventions to address these issues simultaneously for women, men and couples who use drugs.
More recently, I have expanded my substance abuse research to include greater involvement in opioid overdose prevention among women and men. I have begun ato tackle the opioid crisis and issues such as partner violence, reproductive health and gender equity are included in the interventions that we will develop, in order improve access to services and treatment for individuals who use opiates.
While progress has been made to address intimate partner violence among women who use drugs, those with opioid use disorders who experience partner violence are still in dire need of help in navigating and engaging in substance use treatment programs and other services.that many men with substance use disorders often undermined their female partners' recovery.
In my research with men on partner violence and drug use and HIV, a man reported pushing his partner to the floor and forcing her to have sex. He did not consider this violent, since she In another study with women who use drugs, a woman said that her husband hit her and forced her to have sex:"I didn't know I was raped because he was my husband.","When I was sober I didn't dare have sex with him. I had to be high to be able … to make love to him."to negotiate safer sex and reduce drug risk behaviors, such as not sharing syringes with a partner or others, due to imbalanced power dynamics with their partners, and male controlling behaviors.
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