Gender, like drugs, represent a social construction mediated by different sociocultural, historical, legal, political, and normative factors. Understanding this helps us delve into the relationship between drug use and gender. Not only to analyze it from the medicalized approach but also, from a dialectical way where it is possible to demystify beliefs instituted in society. Historically, gender roles have delimited and determined the accesses and beginnings to the consumption and use of some substances, however, this has been gradually changing. On the other hand, Covid19 has exposed the fragility of health systems, to address aggravated problems in users of unregulated substances that would worsen the situations and deficiencies of consumers with addictions and problematic relationships throughout the world.
