Addressing Barriers to Accessing Treatment Services for Mother with Substance Use Disorder
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2020-02-07
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Dash, Krystal
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This project examines the barriers to accessing treatment services for mothers with substance use disorder. It uses an intersectional approach to understand how gender, race/ethnicity, indigenity, and socioeconomic status influence access to treatment services for mothers. The findings illustrate that mothers experience unique barriers to accessing treatment services due to gender norms/expectations, additional stigmatization, and a lack of available resources that provide gender-specific, trauma-informed, and culturally safe practices.
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motherhood, SUD, substance use, harm reduction, family-centred practice, parental health, self determination, basic needs, cultural safety, trauma informed, gender-specific, women health, stigma