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IBDONA hosts a professional conference in Menorca on substance use and vulnerability factors affecting women

Nov 13, 2025 | Actualidad, Current affairs, Featured, Interview, Portada, Post, Revista Lloseta, Thursday Daily Bulletin, Tradition

The Balearic Women’s Institute (IBDONA) will hold a training conference this Friday, 14 November, in Menorca, focusing on the link between substance use, vulnerability factors and the forms of violence experienced by women. The event is part of the activities marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November).

More than seventy professionals from the health and social services fields have already registered for the session, which will feature experts in gender studies, mental health, addictions and gender-based violence. The event will take place at the Sala Multifuncional in Es Mercadal, organised in collaboration with the Island Council of Menorca and the Town Council of Es Mercadal.

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1 IBDONA hosts a professional conference in Menorca on substance use and vulnerability factors affecting women
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IBDONA hosts a professional conference in Menorca on substance use and vulnerability factors affecting women

Registration for in-person attendance remains open until Wednesday through the official form. The conference may also be followed live online without prior registration. Participants attending in person will receive an official attendance certificate issued by IBDONA.

Programme overview

  • 9:00 — Opening session
    With Cati Salom (Director of IBDONA), Carme Reynés (Menorca’s Councillor for Social Welfare) and Joan Palliser (Mayor of es Mercadal).
  • 9:15 — Opening lecture:
    “Gender perspective, drug use and violence” by Nuria Romo, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Granada.
  • 10:15 — Medication use in recovery processes:
    With Gisela Hansen, Berenice Domínguez and gynaecologist Sara Ovejero.
  • 12:00 — Chemical vulnerability as a form of violence:
    With Manuel Isorna (University of Vigo), Elena Klusova (SAMU-061 Eivissa), Tatiana Berge (Forensic Medicine Institute of the Balearic Islands) and anthropologist Ana Burgos (Noctámbulo@s Observatory).
  • 13:30 — Substance use among women in prostitution contexts:
    With specialists from Hermanas Oblatas–Casal Petit, Médicos del Mundo, and the PHB Comprehensive Treatment Centre of Menorca.