Drugs are reported to be carried by women peddlers along their bodies or as innocent accomplices in luggage - in the lining of suitcases etc. Drug culture is usually brought to the house by a male addict, who in the desperation to get his quota of drugs, starts selling family assets. When totally impoverished, he enters the trade of drug trafficking. If he is arrested, his wife and children carry on the work to keep the family trade alive. Women are sometimes forced by addict relatives to work as call girls, or engage in prostitution to provide ready cash for daily consumption, or else to increase contact with the mafia and drug barons.
Drug addicts suffer a loss of desire for sex.
Wives of drug addicts suffer from sexual dissatisfaction which also gives rise to numerous psychological and emotional problems. The number of female addicts is small as compared to men. Wives of addicts are sometimes induced or pressurised to take to drugs by their husbands, perhaps to unburden their conscience. Some women also get involved in drug trafficking once their husbands, running the drug business, are rendered unable to work. Law enforcement agencies complain that involvement of women in the trade of narcotics has made their task difficult.