Women And Substance Abuse Gender Transparency Mayshock Thomas J Jr Stevens by Mayshock, Thomas J. Jr; Stevens, Sally J.; Wexler, Harry K 9780789003898, 0789003899 instant download after payment.

In Women and Substance Abuse: Gender Transparency you’ll see what can be
done to aid women in some of the world’s hardest hit substance abuse
hubs, including Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and
New Haven, Connecticut. Filled with timely research and practical
solutions, this volume shows you what you can do to aid the tremendous
and immediate need for specialized interventions in the lives of women.
Women
and Substance Abuse considers many of the variables in the lives of
women who abuse drugs--race, choice of drug, HIV risk, and drug
treatment history--and gives you line-by-line proof of the need for
custom-tailored harm reduction strategies for addicted women who are and
who aren’t engaged in drug treatment therapy. In addition, you’ll see
why frequent cocaine use, current physical and sexual abuse, and
concerns relating to children can alter the success of therapies and
treatments. Overall, this unique volume will broaden your understanding
of the subject by covering:

• gender differences in risk for gonorrhea infection
  
• risk factors for women who trade sex for drugs and money
  
• the role of physicians and prenatal care providers of substance abusing women
  
• how drug treatment programs can be more multifacted to include planning, prenatal care, and parenting skills
  
• prison-based therapeutic communities
  
• long-term residential treatment for women with children, pregnant women, and women without children
  For
  every unique woman with a drug problem, there is a unique treatment.
  Women and Substance Abuse turns away from the lost cause of blanket
  treatments and takes you into the world’s slums and inner-city ghettoes,
  where the faces of addiction are as diverse as the women who bear its
  debilitating burdens. You’ll see women’s drug addiction for what it
  is--a montage of suffering and pain that only individual and specialized
  care can cure.