Treatment outcome and readmission risk among women in women-only versus mixed-gender drug treatment programs in Chile

Traditional treatment programs for substance use disorder (SUD) tend to be male-dominated environments, which can negatively affect women's access to treatment and related outcomes. Women's specific treatment needs have led some providers to develop women-only SUD treatment programs in several countries. In Chile, women-only programs were only fully implemented in 2010. We compared treatment outcomes and readmission risk for adult women admitted to state-funded women-only versus mixed-gender SUD treatment programs in Chile.

Source: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment - August 31, 2021 Category: Addiction Authors: Carla F. Olivari, Andr és González-Santa Cruz, Pia M. Mauro, Silvia S. Martins, Jaime Sapag, Jorge Gaete, Magdalena Cerdá, Alvaro Castillo-Carniglia Source Type: research