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.