title: Gender, violence and being homeless: the experience of women and high risk drug use.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the experience of homeless women and their high risk drug use.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative research whose data were produced by semi-structured interviews conducted with seven women enrolled in a CAPSad in Salvador, Bahia, in the period from October to December 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Theme content analysis was adopted to organize the data that resulted from processing two thematic categories: Gender, violence and drug use: What changes and what is perpetuated in the life of women users; No strings attached: life on the streets.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results show that many behaviors experienced in the family context and social constructions are reproduced by women and keep them vulnerable to social and health issues, among them the onset and maintenance of high risk drug use.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Escola de Enfermagem. Salvador, Bahia, Brasil.
authors.forename: Márcia Rebeca Rocha de
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Escola de Enfermagem. Salvador, Bahia, Brasil.
authors.forename: Jeane Freitas de
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Escola de Enfermagem. Salvador, Bahia, Brasil.
authors.forename: Mariana Cavalcante Guedes
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Chagas
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Departamento de Saúde. Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brasil.
authors.forename: Evanilda Souza de Santana
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Carvalho
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014754:Violence