15 April 2015
The Saartjie Baartman Centre
says there has been a drastic increase in the number of women with substance
dependency issues.
Over the past few years the
centre has seen an increase of sixty-five percent in the number of women and
children seeking assistance in terms of violence, drug and alcohol abuse.
A research done by the centre
shows that gender-based violence costs the economy 28.4 billion rands a year.
Director of the Centre Shaheema
McLeod says currently about 80% of the women that are coming to the centre with
gender base violence problems have tested positive for drugs.
It is almost expected that when a client runs
at the Saartjie Baartman centre that we will have to test her and provide a
different treatment that will encompass that substance abuse, McLeod added.
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