The Use of Psychoactive Substances by Women: the Importance of a Gender Perspective

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Tahiana Meneses
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Rosa, Lúcia Cristina dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Estudos Feministas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/44594

The objective of this article is to promote, through literature theoretical research, a discussion on women’s use of psychoactive substances. It recognizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach, but invests in socio-cultural aspects of such practices. Gender, as a socio-cultural determinant, is prioritized. Men and women – as different social / cultural actors – retain distinct involvements with the consumption of psychoactive substances. So, this work believes that women are a differentiated segment of users, with particular characteristics and needs that should be considered by public policies. However, women themselves are not a homogeneous group. Therefore, an approach to their psychoactive substance consumption should be fully made, considering their contexts and particularities and based on a perspective of harm reduction.