Towards Gender-responsive, Trauma-informed Care for Substance Use Disorders and PTSD: Evidence to Inform Non-government Services in Australia

Experiences of Health Professionals Caring for People Presenting to the Emergency Department After Taking Crystal Methamphetamine (“ICE”)

“…There is some literature suggesting that women with substance use issues often have a history of childhood emotional and sexual trauma (Cleary & Hungerford, 2015;Dawson, Pritchard, Dean, & Jackson, 2014;Simpson et al, 2016) and that street drugs including methamphetamine that are accessible and affordable are often used to medicate their untreated emotional and physical pain (Boeri, Tyndall, & Woodall, 2011).…”