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Women and Addiction: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
- 2. Women and Addiction
• Depression and PTSD with
SA Higher
• Mortality rate higher more
than 50% for women
• Because of hormone
fluctuations women can
become intoxicated quicker
then males (NIIA)
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- 3. Women and Addiction
• 40 percent of all substance
abusers are women
• Women get less treatment
than men
• Family issues –women more
likely to be scorned
• Workplace –often like males
able to hide
• Women will visit Drs for
illnesses a stomach pains
etc and not realize they are
addicted
• NIDA – MDs prescribe twice
as many psychotropic drugs
for women
• Sex and alcohol
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