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Girls’ attitude towards illegal drugs is changing. Research establishes that more girls are becoming prey to substance abuse and most of them have co-occurring mental health disorders that need to be addressed at the earliest. The SAMHSA report revealed that, among teenagers who abuse substance, 23 percent of girls had co-occurring disorders as compared to […]

Women with substance abuse have unique challenges to face than their counter parts with the same condition. Say for example pregnant woman find it struggle some to quit addiction because of severe withdrawal symptoms despite knowing the fact that they would end up troubling or losing their future child. Due to the sociological circumstances, most […]

Drug abuse in teens is caused by a number of factors that include individual, family, genetic, and social causes apart from bad parenting. Studies on teenagers who are similar in age and gender reveal that parental influence is more profound than that of peers in use of alcohol and other drugs. On the contrary, teenagers […]

Staying undetected would be the single most cumbersome task for the female drug addicts especially, during the early stages of addiction to avoid exposure to stigma and discrimination in the society. At the same time, their addiction tends to progress at an exponential rate by the day causing them to strive even harder to conceal […]

The plight of a family with alcohol and drug addiction suffers effects beyond actual addiction. To begin with, their homes become battle grounds, children become less supportive, siblings become rivals and friends give up on them. Eventually, addiction touches the lives of all the loved ones of the addict be it their spouse, parent, child […]