1.Introduction. Part I: Different voices (Introduction by Gary Witham).
2.Death is not an abstract now: approaching end of life as someone using substances.
3.Views from the coalface: social and health care professionals working with people using substances at, or near, the end of their lives.
4.Seeing the common ground: family and practitioner caregivers’ perspectives of palliative care for people using substances. Part II: Health inequalities (Introduction by Sam Wright).
5.Health literacy and substance use within palliative and end-of-life care.
6.Learning disabilities and substance use at the end of life: listening to the unheard.
7.Improving end-of-life care for people with co-existing mental health and substance use.
8.Ageing (dis)gracefully: People who inject drugs living with hepatitis C and the provision of end-of-life care. Part III: Social inequalities (Introduction by Sarah Galvani).
9.Homelessness and substance use within palliative and end-of-life care. 10 ? Jane’s journey: substance use, palliative care and sex work.
11.Reflecting on the challenges and inequalities facing Black and minoritized communities in accessing substance use services, palliative and end-of-life care.
12.Unequal in life and death: substance use, disadvantage and end-of-life care in prison.
13.Reflections and recommendations: multiple disadvantage, substance use and end-of-life care.