Dr. Nabila El-Bassel, the Director of the Social Intervention Group, was quoted in this latest Bustle article. Bustle, an online American women's magazine with about 50 million monthly readers, is running a series on women and the opioid epidemic.
In the article, Dr. El-Bassel cautions that women who repeatedly experience trauma may cope by continuing to misuse drugs to escape, and that violence must be prevented well before a person experiences a substance use disorder.
Read the full article.
Read a summary from Columbia University.
