Women and Substance Abuse
Subtitle: Gender Transparency
Contributors: Sally J. Stevens (Editor); Harry K. Wexler (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: August 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780789003867
Subjects: Addiction & therapy; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Social welfare & social services; Women's studies; Women; Rehabilitation; Drug And Alcohol Abuse Treatment; Services For Women; Self-Help; Substance use; Psychology; Substance Abuse & Addictions - General; Drug addicts; Psychopathology - Addiction; Drug use; Women drug addicts
First sentence: Although it would be difficult to predict the future course of the AIDS epidemic, The World Health Organization anticipates that the number of HIV-infected persons worldwide will reach 26 million by the year 2000, and that 90% of all AIDS cases will be diagnosed in developing nations (Berkley, 1993).