Chemical Dependency
Subtitle: Women at Risk
Contributors: Brenda L. Underhill (Editor); Dana G., Ph.D. Finnegan (Editor)
Publisher: Harrington Park Press
Published: September 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780789000019
Subjects: Sociology; Substance Abuse; Self-Help; Sociology Of Women; United States; Social Science; Sociology - General; Substance Abuse & Addictions - General; Drug abuse; Women; Counseling of; Drug use; Patients
First sentence: Before the emergence of the women's movement, female alcohol and drug dependency was generally regarded as an uncommon manifestation of a basically masculine disease; as a result, it was often overlooked, underreported, underdiagnosed, and undertreated (Bell Unger, 1988).