Madde Bağımlılığı ve Şiddet Döngüsü: Madde Bağımlısı Kadınlarda Şiddet Deneyiminin İncelenmesi
Substance Addiction and The Cycle of Violence: Investigation of The Experience of Violence in Addicted Women

Author(s): Aslıhan Ardıç Çobaner, Günseli Doğan Binol
Subject(s): Studies in violence and power, Substance abuse and addiction
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Substance abuse; drugs, woman; experience of violence; cycle of ciolence;
Summary/Abstract: Violence emerges as an important risk factor in the process of women starting to use substances and substance addiction. So much so that, while violence increases the risk of starting substance use as a cycle, it continues in the addiction process, taking different forms, and sometimes turns women into perpetrators of violence. The purpose of this study is to examine the types of violence that women who use substances encounter during the process of starting substance use and addiction, and the impact of this violence on the substance addiction process (starting substance use and treatment). Additionally, this study examines the obstacles women face in the process of substance use and substance addiction, in starting and continuing treatment; it aims to understand whether the violence factor continues in this process and the relationship between these obstacles and gender. The study was planned according to the phenomenological (interpretive) approach, one of the qualitative research methods, and the data was collected through in-depth interviews. Interviews were conducted face-to-face and online with women over the age of 18 with a history of substance addiction residing in Ankara and Mersin, at alcohol and substance addiction treatment centers (AMATEM) and Green Crescent Counseling Centers (YEDAM) in these provinces. The study aims to contribute to the studies that appear to be insufficient in the Turkish literature in the field of women and substance addiction, to protect women from substance addiction, to identify the barriers in treatment processes, and to increase their participation in these processes.

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