TY - JOUR
T1 - Substance use disorder in the context of LGBT health
T2 - A social work perspective
AU - Silvestre, Anthony
AU - Beatty, Rodger L.
AU - Friedman, M. Reuel
N1 - Funding Information:
In 2003, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee directed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to turn over information on more than 200 studies related to sexual behavior and sexual orientation. Such scrutiny is the latest public evidence of political interference with scientific research about sexual orientation and gender identify. As Kempnar (2008) has shown these politically motivated actions had a chilling effect on the scientists.
PY - 2013/5/1
Y1 - 2013/5/1
N2 - The impacts of public and private funding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health research, the state of integration of LGBT health issues into the academic and professional training programs of health care practitioners, and the larger social reality experienced by LGBT people profoundly affect substance use and substance use disorders in those populations. This analysis uses a social work perspective and considers the current state of research, professional training, and social oppression as they affect the health of LGBT people. Suggestions for action are offered that may improve the health of LGBT peoples and the practice of social work.
AB - The impacts of public and private funding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health research, the state of integration of LGBT health issues into the academic and professional training programs of health care practitioners, and the larger social reality experienced by LGBT people profoundly affect substance use and substance use disorders in those populations. This analysis uses a social work perspective and considers the current state of research, professional training, and social oppression as they affect the health of LGBT people. Suggestions for action are offered that may improve the health of LGBT peoples and the practice of social work.
KW - LGBT
KW - sexual orientation
KW - substance use
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U2 - 10.1080/19371918.2013.774667
DO - 10.1080/19371918.2013.774667
M3 - Article
C2 - 23731425
AN - SCOPUS:84879114485
SN - 1937-1918
VL - 28
SP - 366
EP - 376
JO - Social Work in Public Health
JF - Social Work in Public Health
IS - 3-4
ER -