Women and psycho-social-cultural issues in drug abuse in the globalization world

1. Abstract
2. Resumen
3. Changing rapidly and
   consequent repercussions in new trends in the women consumption
   of drugs in the United States
5. Women
   often experience drug abuse and addiction quite differently
   than men
6. The
   differences between man and woman
7. Women
   in the socio-cultural circumstances
8. Women
   in the social hierarchy
9. Women
   develop an addiction much faster
10. Bibliography

Abstract

The female drug addict appears in a condition of greater
vulnerability than the male and is more seriously exposed to
risks for her health and physical integrity. This condition,
which is already at a disadvantage, is made worse by the fact
that the system of the social-health services for treatment and
rehabilitation does not seem to take this factor sufficiently
into consideration by underestimating her specific needs and
therefore proposing protocols of intervention that are the same
as the males. The fact that the female drug addicts are a clear
minority in respect to the males and the evolutionary
potentiality are often conformed by an interpretation of the
situation which takes on a prevalently male
connotation.

Resumen

La mujer drogadicta
aparece en una condición de mayor vulnerabilidad que
el hombre y es
más gravemente expuesto a los riesgos para
su salud e
integridad física. Esta
condición, que ya está en desventaja se agrava por
el hecho de que el sistema de los
servicios
socio-sanitarios para el tratamiento y la rehabilitación
no parece tener este factor en cuenta suficientemente por
subestimar sus necesidades específicas y por lo tanto
proponer protocolos de
intervención, que son los mismos que los varones. El hecho
de que las mujeres drogadictas son una clara minoría con
respecto a los varones y la potencialidad evolutiva se han
conformado por una interpretación de la situación que
adquiere una connotación predominantemente
masculina.

Changing rapidly and
consequent repercussions in new trends in the women consumption
of drugs in the United States

Today, we live in a world which is changing rapidly and
in continuation. A deeper understanding, of the subject of female
identity[1]can undoubtedly contribute
significantly towards the understanding of certain psychological
aspects, not only at a personal
evolutional level but also regarding the social implications
since they are the ones most affected by these cultural changes
such as life-style with the consequent repercussions in new
trends in the consumption of drugs.

Going through the literature, one has the impression
that the theoretical reflections on the process of female
identification do not keep up with the personal and
psychopathological aspects. Above all, this is true in connection
with the phenomena of drug addiction where the epidemiological
importance of women undoubtedly represents a part of the problem
which cannot be ignored.

Indeed, when a problem of drug abuse becomes evident,
the female drug addict appears in a condition of greater
vulnerability than the male and is more seriously exposed to
risks for her health and physical integrity. An addict is a
person whose life is controlled by drugs in different of
levels.

This condition, which is already at a disadvantage, is
made worse by the fact that the system of the social-health
services for treatment and rehabilitation does not seem to take
this factor sufficiently into consideration by underestimating
her specific needs and therefore proposing protocols of
intervention that are the same as the males. The addicts are
people in the grip of a continuing and progressive illness whose
ends are always the same: jails, institutions, and death. Perhaps
female addict that admit that have a problem with drugs, but you
don"t consider their self an addict. All of us have preconceived
ideas about what an addict is. There is nothing shameful about
being an addict once you begin to take positive action, but in
female identity is a condition of greater vulnerability than the
male as cultural changes such as life-style with the consequent
repercussions than the male.