Explores how physical, financial, social and psychological factors influence the progression of the disease in women, their access to treatment and their chances of success with abstinence. In addition, the book describes how society's attitude on female alcoholism plays an important part in why women become addicted, why they stay addicted and in limiting women's choices to treatment. Women face different negative consequences from their drinking and different obstacles in their recovery primarily because of the roles they play in our society.

is based on 15 years of experience working with female alcoholics and examines: what drugs play a part in women's alcoholism, how eating disorders and other addictions reinforce women's alcoholism, how alcoholism impacts women's marriages and relationships, how relationships impact women's alcoholism, the pregnant alcoholic and the alcoholic mother, how alcoholism can set women up to be abused, battered and raped, how alcoholism and mental illness interact, the female experience in Alcoholics Anonymous, treatment options, issues and relapse triggers that are specific to women.

I. Alcoholism, Drug Addiction and Women 1.    The Disease of Alcoholism 2.    The Female Alcoholic 3.    The Female Alcoholic and Chemical Dependency II. Women, Alcohol and Relationships 4.    The Female Alcoholic in Relationships 5.    The Battered Alcoholic III. Women, Alcoholism and Parenting 6.    The Pregnant Alcoholic 7.    The Alcoholic Mother 8.    The Alcoholic Adult Daughter of Alcoholic(s) 9.    The Female Alcoholic and Abuse

IV. Women, Addiction and Mental Illness 10.    The Female Alcoholic and Other Addictions 11.    The Female Alcoholic and Dual Diagnosis V. Women and Treatment 12.    The Female Alcoholic and Treatment 13.    The Female Alcoholic and AA 14.    Recovery Issues of the Female Alcoholic 15.    Relapse Issues of the Female Alcoholic

"This book lends a clear and in-depth view that cuts to the heart of the female alcoholic's world"   - Kathleen Grimard MSW, CADC, NCAC II

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