@article{ref1,
title="A comparison of women seeking drug and alcohol treatment in a specialist women's and two traditional mixed-sex treatment services",
journal="British journal of addiction",
year="1992",
author="Copeland, J. and Hall, W.",
volume="87",
number="9",
pages="1293-1302",
abstract="The paucity of research on the treatment needs of women with substance abuse problems has been a serious impediment to the development of empirically validated treatment programmes. Women continue to be seriously under-represented as research subjects and clients of treatment services. This study compares the characteristics of 80 women attending a specialist women's treatment service with those of eighty women attending two traditional mixed-sex treatment agencies. Women attending a gender-sensitive service were significantly more likely to have dependent children, to be lesbian, to have a maternal history for drug or alcohol problems and to have suffered sexual abuse in childhood. These results suggest that gender-sensitive treatment services may be recruiting women who might not otherwise have sought treatment for their substance dependence problems.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0952-0481",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}