I'm researching the concept of addiction for a PhD titled 'Women Writing Addiction'. They are more likely to be attached to prescribed psychoactive medications.
Women suffer more from affective disorders, particularly depression.
They are also quite often beset by eating disorders. Moreover, adolescent women have become dramatically less physically active over the last decades, thus guaranteeing future generations of women whose lifestyles do not support the body types they desire. These are vibrant and involved women whose subjugated themselves to their husbands' careers because of their insecurities.