The age between: Adolescence and therapy

The Governance of Female Drug Users

“…One constitutes the problem as inherent in the women themselves. For example, as women's use of illicit drugs represents a greater departure from traditional sex roles than men's, the female drug user is 'sicker' than the male (see, for example, Margulies, 1972;Kaufman, 1984). The other argues that women receive greater maltreatment from society, and consequently have more about which to complain (see, for example, Colten, 1977;Mondanaro, 1989;Ettorre, 1992).…”