The social alarm generated in recent years caused by the diffusion in the
mass media of many cases of gender violence has caused a growing interest by this
problem. This fact has stimulated the research, preventive programs and not
always fortunate intervention, national plans, strategies and legislations directed to
solve this problem. Gender violence is a well-known fact but with large lacks as
the incidence of violence and abuses among the collective one of addicted women.
The aim of this work was to investigate the reality of the gender violence on addicted
women to facilitate to plan strategies that undertake the violence and its consequences
of the more efficient actions and in the breast of the processing of the
addiction. The methodology was to review the results of the European investigations
developed by the drug addictions studies group and gender identity with
populations of addicted women since 1998 to 2004. Bibliographical data of studies
with the same population are revised in which different types of maltreatment are
analyzed. The outcomes showed that the incidence of maltreatment is higher compared
with the general female population. Some factors are commented, like submission
behaviour and the psychological consequences of sex abuse during the
infancy. Also maintenance of the violence on the addict is observed that is initiated
in the infancy to continue being an adult suffering violence by hand of its couple
or of relatives and acquaintances. Finally some guidelines for the approach of
gender violence on addicted women inside the processing of its addiction are
recommended.