Highlites: Highlighting the importance of getting help while living in traumatic environments among stimulant-using women

Stockman, Jamila K.

Friday, March 20, 2015: 10:15 AM-11:35 AM

Room 13/14 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Jamila K. Stockman, PhD, MPH, University of California, San Diego

Authors:
Natasha Ludwig-Barron, MPH, University of California, San Diego
Lindsey J. White, MPH, University of California, San Diego
Hitomi Hayashi, MPH, University of Texas, School of Public Health
Julie N. Bergmann, MHS, San Diego State University/University of California San Diego
Louisa Gilbert, PhD, Columbia University School of Social Work

Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Acquire knowledge on the role of drug use in experiences of intimate partner violence and intimate partner homicide among women.
Identify abused stimulant-using women’s risk for lethality using the Danger Assessment, a lethality risk assessment.
Understand the safety planning strategies used by abused women in the context of individual and partner drug use.

Description:
Our mixed methods study assessed abused stimulant-using women’s risk for lethality and described current safety planning strategies in the context of individual and partner drug use. Given the high risk for potential lethality and inadequate safety planning, there is a critical need for lethality risk assessments and guidance on safety planning for drug-using women, specifically for those who are not in drug treatment programs.