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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...

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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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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...