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How Does Gender Impact On Drug Use
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How Does Gender Impact On Drug Use How Does Gender Impact on Drug Use? Drug taking used to be seen as a predominantly male activity, with women involved only on the sidelines. It is generally seen as a young, male, working class pursuit and if women were addicts they were seen as unnatural and deviant. "It would be foolish to imagine that women do not take drugs - isolated young housewives are amongst the heaviest drug users and girls in their late teens are one of the largest groups amongst attempted suicides by drug overdose...I am suggesting for a complex of reasons the imaginary solutions which drugs may offer boys do not have the same attraction for girls." However if it is unnatural for women to take drugs does this mean that it is natural and therefore acceptable for males to be drug users? This idea of the gender split is now changing;...
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