… If we are to discuss such a vast area as women’s use of drug substances, we must limit
the focus. The focus here is the use of legal, socially acceptable drugs by women. Within the …

… women's voices and perspectives into a conversation that has previously excluded them.
Attention to women's perspectives … screen, screening for drug use in prenatal care may have …

… drug users at increased risk, women are made even more vulnerable by social, economic,
and culturally embedded power imbalances. Women … reduction and drug treatment programs …

… After documenting some of the sex differences in patterns of alcohol and drug use, noting
any changes in those patterns, we will examine some of the gender differences in etiology of …

… The findings are based on data obtained in the 1982 National Survey on Drug Abuse …
broader societal context within which drug use and abuse by women has become a topic of …

… Reflecting on the context of these traditional discussions, I would argue that the terms “addiction”
or “drug use” do not mirror adequately women’s somewhat problematic relationship to …

… century, drug use increased more rapidly by women than … users of cocaine, chloroform,
and cannabis, were women.-10 … mid- to late nineteenth-century women, as with men, was the …

… A complementary perspective suggested by Kaufman Kantor and Straus,8 and the focus of
… This perspective is based on the idea that women under the influence of alcohol and other …

… questions concerning women's problem drug use and drinking… women experience in relation
to drinking and drug use; sought … book is on women's personal experiences of drug use and …

… related to women drug users’ bodies … of women drug users needs to be valued in the drugs
field. Exploring the connections between the female body, the technologies of drugs use and …