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Women and addiction : a comprehensive handbook /

Women and addiction : a comprehensive handbook / - New York : Guilford Press, c2009. - xvii, 526 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Substance abuse across the lifespan in women / Research design and methodology in studies of women and addiction / Neuroactive gonadal steroid hormones and drug-addiction in women / Stress, neuroendocrine response, and addiction in women / Sex differences in the transmission of substance use disorders / Sex differences and neurotransmitter systems in addiction / Sex differences in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics / Gender, cognition, and addiction / The roles of sex difference in the drug addiction process / Comorbidity of substance use disorders with independent mood and anxiety disorders in women : results from the National epidemiologic survey on alcohol and related conditions / Depression and substance use disorders in women / Gender, anxiety, and substance use disorders / Co-occurring eating and substance use disorders / Trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, and addiction among women / Psychotic disorders in women with substance abuse / Concurrent personality disorders and substance use disorders in women / Monica L. Zilberman -- Stephanie Collins Reed and Suzette M. Evans -- Jennifer L. Newman and Nancy K. Mello -- Helen Fox and Rajita Sinha -- Amanda Kalaydijian and Kathleen Ries Merikangas -- Teresa A. Pigott ... [et. al] -- C. Lindsay DeVane -- Simona Sava, Alexandra McCaffrey, and Deborah A. Yurgelun-Todd -- Amanda Elton and Clinton D. Kilts -- Risë B. Goldstein -- Helen M Pettinati and Jennifer G. Plebani -- Kathleen T. Brady and Karen Hartwell -- Lisa R. Cohen and Susan M. Gordon -- Denise Hien -- Kim-Chi Nguyen and E. Sherwood Brown -- Lisa A. Burckell and Shelley McMain -- Gender-specific treatment for women with substance use disorders / Treatment seeking and utilization among women with substance use disorders / Behavioral couple therapy : partner-involved treatment for substance-abusing women / Women, girls, and alcohol / Treatment of nicotine dependence in women / Gender and prescription opioid addiction / Women and marijuana dependence : issues and opportunities / Sex differences in vulnerability to stimulant abuse : a transnational perspective / Adolescent substance use and the role of gender / Substance use in pregnancy / Ethnic and cultural correlates of addiction among diverse women / Substance use disorders among sexual-minority women / Violence and victimization among women with substance use disorders / Legal issues, addiction, and gender / Shelly F. Greenfield and Sandrine Pirard -- Christine E. Grella -- William Fals-Stewart, Wendy K.K. Lam, and Michelle L. Kelley -- Sherry H. Stewart, Dubravka Gavric, and Pamela Collins -- Kenneth A. Perkins -- Sudie E. Back and Rebecca Payne -- Aimee L. McRae-Clark and Kimber L. Price -- Wendy J. Lynch ... [et. al] -- Himanshu P. Upadhyaya and Kevin M. Gray -- Chaya Bhuvaneswar and Grace Chang -- Latoya C. Conner, Charlene E. Le Fauve, and Barbra C. Wallace -- Thomas W. Irwin -- Angela E. Waldrop -- Rebecca W. Brendel and Matthew F. Soulier.

Scientific awareness of sex and gender differences in substance use disorders has grown in recent years. This volume brings together leading authorities to review the state of the science and identify key directions for research and clinical practice.

9781606231074 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781606231074: £47.50 1606231073 (hardcover : alk. paper)


Women drug addicts.
Women--Substance use.

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