The health of many women and children in Afghanistan is at great risk because of passive exposure to heroin and other drugs, according to a new study commissioned by the U.S. Department of State and jointly led by two University of Florida drug addiction experts.
Adult female substance abuse affects not only the women who choose to use alcohol and drugs in an abusive fashion, but it can have profound effects on their children. Injuries and deaths caused by substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, and fetal alcohol syndrome are all secondary consequences of adult female substance abuse.
The argument that there is no difference between the sexes holds little weight when it comes to drug abuse and addiction. According to a piece in the Psychiatric Times, studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) show that the molecular events that accompany drug abuse and addiction for men and women are different. … Continue Reading
