The material presented in this publication clearly illustrates the breadth and complexity of drug abuse-related issues that affect women's health. Only she doesn't know it yet. Another way drugs can kill. Who Shoots Up Can be Very Giving. The Survey gathered self-report data from a national sample of 2,613 women who delivered in 52 urban and rural hospitals during 1992.
Information is provided on demographic characteristics and patterns of drug use.
The video demonstrates that women in recovery often have a range of problems that predate their drug use and that must be dealt with as apart of their drug abuse treatment. In the video women in treatment talk about their problems and progress during individual interviews and group therapy sessions. The treatment scenes are interwoven with relevant comments from program staff and NIDA researchers who specialize in treatment issues for women. Portrays two comprehensive drug abuse treatment approaches that have been effective with men and women in State and Federal prisons. Shows them after a night of partying, waking up as strangers, and realizing that they did something really stupid by getting high and maybe having risky sex.