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Third annual report: Night Owls. Qualitative research on the relationship between drug use and sexual abuse in the nightlife

Noctambul@s Observatory aims to go deep into the existing relationship between drug use, harassment and sexual abuse in nightlife settings. The study is part of a line of prevention and risk reduction based on a universal and selective intervention approach. In prevention and risk reduction contexts, sexual violence has not been named, even if it is, ‒paradoxically, and on the basis of the results found‒ one of the main risks in nightlife settings, especially for women. Our society’s high tolerance towards sexual abusive behaviour, especially under the influence of drugs, has helped to hide the phenomenon. That is why, in 2013, the Health and Community Foundation, funded by the National Plan on Drugs, started out this observatory with the aim of developing a stable line of specific work ba...