ABSTRACT
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is one of the most common forms of violence against women and includes psychological, physical, and sexual violence. It is important to note that financial violence is another type of violence reported in Latin America. IPV is also known as domestic violence, wife abuse, among adolescents and young adults, as dating violence. IPV is violence between individuals in a romantic or close relationship, but is not limited by age, marital status, cohabitation, or sexuality, and recognizes that women may be perpetrators as well as victims of IPV. Drug use and IPV commonly co-occur. In the field of mental health disorders, drug use in the female population has gained greater visibility in recent years. It is a complex and multicausal phenomenon, IPV is strongly associated with this behaviour, and both tend to be related to psychosocial problems. Sexual violence has been reported by 50–80% of Latin American women during their childhood. Women facing violence have 15-times higher probability to develop problematic drug use patterns.
