Adfam’s Chief Executive Vivienne Evans, is a member of the Women’s Treatment Working Group, a group of women in leadership roles, working together to improve support for women affected by drug and alcohol use. Today the Women’s Treatment Working Group launched its Womanifesto, outlining why women in treatment need a distinct approach, with recommendations for the Office for Health Improvements and Disparities at the Department of Health and Social Care. It notes that:
- Women comprise 52% of the population but only 33% of treatment service users.
- They face higher rates of childhood trauma and interpersonal violence.
- Drug-related deaths among women continue to rise.
- Women are six times more likely than men to have children removed due to substance use.
- They are overrepresented in maternal deaths, often linked to domestic abuse.
Its recommendations relate to women only spaces and services, motherhood and maternity and co-designed women’s pathway and
partnerships.
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