One alarming news for women: women drug addicts are on the rise. Read on:
Addiction amongst women is on the rise...
Drug addiction among women is rising steady primarily because women do not seek treatment as they are afraid. The main reason of their fear is being a mother and that they may be perceived as unable to take care of their children. Drug abusing women run the risk of having their children taken away from them either temporarily or for good, and in South Carolina, of being sentenced to prison for up to 10 years. Women abusing drugs report that their drug addiction was initiated by their drug abusing partners. In addition, research indicates that drug-dependent women have great difficulty abstaining from drugs, when the lifestyle of their partner is one that supports drug use.
Drug abusing women have no choice but to hide their addiction from their families and authorities. To declare it openly is to sign a social death warrant, and sometimes actually leads to physical death: many women questioned at treatment centers admitted that they had made suicide attempts. Unlike drug abusing men, women drug abusers are unable to hide their guilt of abusing drugs and maintain a false high self esteem as men do because women are unable to blame their drug abuse on external causes.
Drug addiction among women has to be treated differently from their counterparts. Only 41% of women who need drug treatment actually receive it, and when they do, most programs are based on -oriented models that are not geared to the needs of women. Women are most likely to benefit from drug treatment programs that provide are geared towards providing comprehensive services for meeting basic needs of women. Addressing the social and family needs of women is the key to successful treatment of women drug abusers. Traditional drug treatment programs may not be appropriate for women because those programs may not provide these services. Research also indicates that, for women in particular, a continuing relationship with a treatment provider is an important factor throughout treatment. Any individual may experience lapses and relapses as expected steps of the treatment and recovery process; during these periods, women particularly need the support of the community and encouragement of those closest to them. After completing a drug treatment program, women also need services to assist them in sustaining their recovery and in rejoining their social file. (Source: Drug Rehab Help).
It seems like harder for society to accept women drug addicts than men drug addicts, or perhaps the latter are more prone to doing it than the former? I think regardless of or gender orientation, rehab centers should develop programs that can easily adapt to the changes in demographics; else, the alarming rate of women drug addicts will continue to go up, until solutions will be far-fetched.
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The only thing that never said was how it happenes. I mean it highlighted the lack of assistance to those caught up in that world, but not how they get there.
I suppose the most common way would be just going out to clubs, and getting offered something, although I would assume other overlooked ways, would be things like depression, or having been in an abusive family / relationship, which might trigger an urge to experiment.
It would have been good to have the article highlight how it starts, as many people might get more asisstance for such things, by better analysis of domestic situations, and policies of places where people go to have fun, in order to stop it before it starts.
It's fine for people to say, hay lets not forget these women need help too, and not to be scorned as bad parents, or people who'll amount to nothing, but it could also be a failing in society, to act in the early stages, to reduce the likelihood of somebody having that first "experience".
I can't say prevention is cure, as with many things it isn't. A lot of social ills most likely have more than one root cause, so you can't spend time, money and resources, trying to tackle one root cause, if some people revert to other measures to try and start on that road.
Some people will do such things when determined enough.
Nice article though none the less, if not fully rounded in its detail
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I suppose the most common way would be just going out to clubs, and getting offered something, although I would assume other overlooked ways, would be things like depression, or having been in an abusive family / relationship, which might trigger an urge to experiment.
It would have been good to have the article highlight how it starts, as many people might get more asisstance for such things, by better analysis of domestic situations, and policies of places where people go to have fun, in order to stop it before it starts.
It's fine for people to say, hay lets not forget these women need help too, and not to be scorned as bad parents, or people who'll amount to nothing, but it could also be a failing in society, to act in the early stages, to reduce the likelihood of somebody having that first "experience".
I can't say prevention is cure, as with many things it isn't. A lot of social ills most likely have more than one root cause, so you can't spend time, money and resources, trying to tackle one root cause, if some people revert to other measures to try and start on that road.
Some people will do such things when determined enough.
Nice article though none the less, if not fully rounded in its detail
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