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Today more than 4 million women in USA use drugs. Women of all ages, races and cultures...
Women just like your best friend, your sister, your co-worker, or your daughter.... Women just like you.
Drug abuse
is a serious, continuing illness. There are no easy cures.
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
woen have taken prescription drugs nonmedically during the past year.
*** More than 28.000 (70%) of the AIDS cases
among women are drug-related.
Almost half of all women age 15-44 have used
drugs atleast once in their life. Of these women, nearly 2 million have used cocaine and more than6 million have used marijuana
within the past year. Most women drug abusers use more than one drug.
To understand drug use by pregnant women, the
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has been studying treatment for women to develop the most effective approaches. One
project, "Perinatal 10", is looking at the effects of treatment, medical care, and support services for pregnant women.
HEALTH EFFECTS:
A US Vital
Statistics Report found that 21.683 people died of drug induced causes in 2001. Of the drug induced deaths 7,439 (34%) were
females.
Women give birth.. thus need
to take good care of their body in order to have a healthy baby. Drug abuse with women, especially pregnant women is very
harmful.
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