You Have to Consider Gender. Accounts of Professionals on the Barriers to Women's Treatment for Drug Problems Romo Avilés, María Nuria Pérez Amigo, Julia López Morales, Juan barriers drug problems treatment gender women qualitative research This work was funded as part of the project: “The impact of violence on women receiving care in the Andalusian network of addiction treatment centers (IMPAVIA)” Reference: PY20_00296. Andalusian Knowledge Agency. Ministry of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities. Women face barriers to accessing treatment services for drug problems, without fully benefiting from existing programs and resources. We have carried out a qualitative investigation through focus groups with professionals from different disciplines of the Public Network for Drug-Dependence Care of Andalusia. The barriers we have highlighted show the loneliness of women who have problems with drugs use. Our results show that professionals perceived a series of personal, family, institutional, and gender barriers that can prevent women from accessing treatment services. In addition, genderbased violence is a fundamental human-rights problem, and this is also the case for women who use drugs, constituting a barrier to their access to treatment. The narratives of these professionals show through proposals that we need to “consider gender,” and make visible how the context of social inequality continues to affect women who have a drug-use problem in order to break down barriers and empower them. 2025-04-21T08:02:32Z 2025-04-21T08:02:32Z 2025 journal article Published version: Romo-Avilés, N., Pérez-Amigo, J., & López-Morales, J. (2025). "You Have to Consider Gender". Accounts of Professionals on the Barriers to Women’s Treatment for Drug Problems. Contemporary Drug Problems, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00914509251334930 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/103655 10.1177/00914509251334930 eng open access Sage