Lesson 11: Sex And Relapse Prevention - Slide 16
Sex, Injection Drugs And Power
- Gender power imbalance is seen with initiation to injection of drugs
- Males gain control of the initiation by directly injecting females after first injecting themselves
- Frequently, females fail to learn how to inject themselves and become injection dependent on other injection drug users, often requiring help to inject throughout their injection use
- As a result females feel that they do not possess the power to insist that injection equipment:
- Not be shared
- Be cleaned between users
Notes:
Canada Communicable Disease Report, “Sex Differences In Injecting Practices And Hepatitis C: A Systematic Review Of The Literature,” Volume 30-14, July 15, 2004
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