Violence narratives of Mexican women treated in mutual-aid residential centers for addiction treatment
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Violence narratives of Mexican women treated in mutual-aid residential centers for addiction treatment
BACKGROUND Violence against women is a social and public health issue in Mexico. The aim of this article is to explore violence among an understudied group of women, who attended Mutual-Aid Residential Centers for Addiction Treatment and experienced stigma both as women and addicts. These centers are particular kind of addiction treatment services that stem from 12-step philosophy, but that hav...
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عنوان ژورنال: Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1747-597X
DOI: 10.1186/s13011-016-0083-0