ArticleBMC women's health2014
Contraception, punishment and women who use drugs.
Article in BMC women's health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Contraception use among individuals with substance use disorder increases tenfold with patient-centered, mobile services: a quasi-experimental study.Harm reduction journal · 2023Trial
- Contraceptive and condom use among women from key populations in Myanmar.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
- Integrating routine screening for pregnancy intention and contraceptive use into care of women who use alcohol or other drugs.Drug and alcohol review · 2025Article
- Postpartum contraceptive planning of women with substance abuse disorders.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2021Article
- Use of health care services by people with substance use disorders in Belgium: a register-based cohort study.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2021Article
- "Health Is on the Back Burner:" Multilevel Barriers and Facilitators to Primary Care Among People Who Inject Drugs.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Article
- Developing integrated community-based HIV prevention, harm reduction, and sexual and reproductive health services for women who inject drugs.Reproductive health · 2019Article
- Another frontier for harm reduction: contraceptive needs of females who inject drugs in Estonia, a cross-sectional study.Harm reduction journal · 2018Article
- Pregnant or recently pregnant opioid users: contraception decisions, perceptions and preferences.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2018Article
- Use and knowledge of contraceptive methods by patients in two substance use disorders treatment centers in Paris.Harm reduction journal · 2017Observational
- Improving Access to Long-Acting Contraceptive Methods and Reducing Unplanned Pregnancy Among Women with Substance Use Disorders.Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2016Review
- Highly Effective Birth Control Use Before and After Women's Incarceration.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2015Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundIn light of the recent debate on the use of financial incentives to promote long-acting contraception and sterilisation among women who use illicit drugs we discuss attitudes to contraception, pregnancy and parenting among Australian women who inject drugs.
methodsQualitative interviews were conducted with 90 women of reproductive age about contraceptive use, preferences, reproductive histories, attitudes to and experiences of parenting. All women were either currently, or had previously injected drugs. The in-depth, semi-structured interviews were compared and contrasted for themes relating to drug use, contraception, pregnancy and parenting.
resultsParticipants aspired to control their fertility, expressed individual contraceptive preferences and concerns for their children (both born and unborn). Most had tried a number of contraceptive methods interspersed by periods of non-use related to experiences of side-effects, being single or abstinent, believing that they were infertile and trying to conceive. Attitudes varied from woman to woman and in the same individual over their life course. Some believed that they were not likely to be capable, but most aspired to be successful mothers.
conclusionsWomen's drug use should not automatically be associated with an inability to make informed health care choices or to care for children. Evidence suggests that women who use drugs do not need to be paid to limit or end their fertility. Rather, programs that aim to reduce barriers to obtaining free, non-discriminating reproductive advice and parenting assistance would better utilise women's agency to improve their own reproductive health.
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