Women drug users are vulnerable to all kinds of hardship, but what's most traumatic is losing their children. Graphic: IZUDIN ISMAIL
Socially, women drug users face more stigma compared to men because of conventional gender roles.
“Society sees women as maternal figures and the ‘caretakers’ of their families. Women who take drugs are immediately labelled as ‘bad’ and are condemned and rejected. This cause parent-child separation as they are deemed unfit to be mothers.
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