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Article: Male-Female Substance Abuse Patterns Differ.(Brief Article)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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WASHINGTON -- Girls and women drink alcohol and use drugs for different reasons than men, and the substances have somewhat different physiological effects in females than in males.
Physicians therefore need to become more familiar with gender differences in substance abuse disorders, as they are beginning to do with other disorders like cardiovascular disease, speakers agreed at a program on addiction and recovery sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Society for the Advancement of Women's Health.
"Doctors need to pay attention to the significant gender issues both in the progression from substance use to addiction and in the course ...