Health Inequities Among People Who Use Drugs in a Post-Dobbs America: The Case for a Syndemic Analysis Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • AbstractPunitive policy responses to substance use and to abortion care constitute direct attacks on personal liberty and bodily autonomy. In this article, we leverage the concept of “syndemics” to anticipate how the already synergistic stigmas against people who use drugs and people who seek abortion services will be further compounded the Dobbs decision.

publication date

  • 2023