PH.D. Recreational Drugs Historically, women have been the largest consumers of mood-altering drugs. When opium was legal in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the vast majority of addicts were female. According to the Society for the Advancement of Womens Health Research, women are more likely to feel they need alcohol or drugs to cope with difficult situations. For whatever reason a woman starts using recreational drugs, she is more likely to develop early health problems than a man. According to Macy C. Dufour, M.D., it takes less alcohol and less time in women to develop complications such as brain damage, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, alcoholic cognitive deficit, and liver disease.
Women are also more likely to use drugs to deal with eating and anxiety disorders than men.
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