Drug Use and Abuse among Women: An Overview

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A review of women''s usage of 3 popular drug categories, heroin, marihuana and the psychotropics, reveals that use and abuse of these drugs by women is largely neglected in both research and treatment. Use and possibly abuse, by women, of all 3 categories is increasing. Heroin addiction among women has increased at a much faster rate than among men, marihuana usage is estimated to equal that of men in some regions of the USA and use of the psychotropics is consistently higher among women than among men. A scarcity of data exists in all areas of female drug usage. Some studies use only male respondents and in other studies, the female user is treated as a deviant user because she does not fit the conceptual models derived from studies of male abusers.

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