Transforming in parallel: Drug policies and equality policies in Democratic Spain
The consolidation over the last 40 years of the National Plan on Drugs (PNSD) as the body responsible for generating drug policies, together with the development of equality policies, has enabled the emergence of research and intervention initiatives incorporating a gender perspective. This text reflects on how, despite the creation of significant political structures and the initiation of gender-sensitive research and interventions, the necessary synchrony has not been achieved for drug policies with a gender perspective to be developed at the level of transforming the groups in which they are implemented and to follow a gender-transformative health model. Such a transformation would enable preventive programmes, treatment systems, and, above all, interventions addressing structural inequalities—such as gender-based violence—that affect populations who use or misuse drugs.
Keywords:
Gender, National Drug Plan, drug abuse, public policy, institutional coordination.
Received date
04/09/2025
Accepted date
10/12/2025