Substance Abuse and Women

Paper Summary:

The paper looks at current substance abuse treatment programs for women and their effectiveness and reveals that female substance abusers need gender-specific treatment. The paper discusses how religious belief or spirituality plays a major role in the reform of a person with substance problems. The paper refers to various models of behavior change and then examines a design for a spirituality based model.

Outline:
Treatment Programming and Health Services for Women
Substance Use Treatment Needs of Women Prisoners
Behavior Models for Substance Abuse Treatment

From the Paper:

"Recent studies say that 10% of the population abuses drugs or alcohol and that 20% of patients who consult physicians have substance abuse problems, which exclude tobacco use (Mersy 2003). Substance abuse has been defined as the problematic use of alcohol, tobacco or illicit drugs. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism estimates that this number-one health problem costs society as much as $100 billion a year. It is also accountable for 100,000 deaths annually. Furthermore, those who abuse drugs and alcohol are likelier to develop medical problems than any other sector in the entire population. Women constitute a risk population for substance abuse (Mersy)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ashley, S. S. (2003). Effectiveness of substance abuse treatment programming for women: a review. 20 pages. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Campbell, Cynthia and Jeffrey A. Alexander (2005). Health services for women in outpatient substance abuse treatment. 17 pages. Health Services Research: American College of Healthcare Services
• Mersy, D. J. (2003). Recognition of alcohol and substance abuse. 6 pages. American Family Physician: American Academy of Family Physicians
• Neft, J. A. and Samuel A. Macmaster (2005). Applying behavior models to understand spiritual mechanisms underlying change in substance abuse treatment. 12 pages. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Van Den Broek, A. (2006). The forgotten offender: women in prison have unique substance use treatment needs. 4 pages. Cross Currents - the Journal of Addiction and Mental Health: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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