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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRUG POLICY
Volume 108, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103815
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Gender; Women; Transgender; Gender-responsive; Harm reduction; Spotting; COVID-19; Virtual and remote services
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the increased use of virtual and remote service delivery in the substance use field, allowing for improved services to meet the diverse needs of women and gender-diverse individuals.
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the uptake of virtual and remote service delivery in the substance use field, which was previously uncommon. This swift uptake of virtual services provides an opportunity to improve service design to meet the diverse needs of women and gender-diverse people. Such services have the potential to better meet the needs of women and gender-diverse people by allowing for increased choice, control, and autonomy, enabling empowerment, facilitating greater considerations of power relations, violence, childcare responsibilities, and fostering greater inclusion of trans and non-binary people. This commentary aims to identify how virtual and remote delivery of substance use treatment and harm reduction services can be gender-responsive. We highlight the role gender transformative services play in meeting the unique needs of women and gender-diverse people who use drugs both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. By using the unique window of opportunity COVID19 has created to develop and deliver gender-transformative programs, we can help address the detrimental gaps in service accessibility and effectiveness that have persistently been experienced by women and gender-diverse people who use drugs.
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