Women and Drug Abuse National Institute on Drug Abuse Women and Drug Abuse Today, more than 4 million women in this country use drugs. Women just like you. Drug abuse is a serious, continuing illness. There are no easy cures.
Drug abuse can affect any woman.
Women who try to quit sometimes fail at first. But help is available to overcome the illness of drug abuse. Women who use drugs do not have to face the problem alone. 9 million women have used illegal drugs in the past year. 3.7 million women have taken prescription drugs nonmedically during the past year.