Research Catalog

Title

Drug addiction research and the health of women : executive summary / editors, Cora Lee Wetherington, Adele B. Roman.

Publication

Rockville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Wetherington, Cora Lee.
• Roman, Adele B.
• National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Description

viii, 142 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

NIH publication ; no. 98-4289

Subject

• Women > Drug use > United States > Congresses
• Drug abuse > United States > Sex differences > Congresses
• Women's Health
• Substance-Related Disorders

Note

• "Based on the scientific research conference "Drug Addcition Research and the Health of Women", which was held on September 12-14, 1994, in Tyson's Corner, VA, and was sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse"--t.p. verso.
• Shipping list no.: 1998-0266-P.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available via Internet from the National Institute on Drug Abuse web site. Address as of 12/9/2003: http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/DARHW-exec.pdf; current access available via PURL.

Contents

The history of drug abuse and women in the United States / Stephen R. Kandall -- Keynote address : neurobiological correlates of the addictions : findings from basic and treatment research / Mary Jeanne Kreek -- Epidemiology of drug use and abuse among women / Denise B. Kandel -- Drug abuse and reproduction in women / Nancy K. Mello -- Sex differences, drugs, and defensive behavior / D. Caroline Blanchard -- Sex defferences and hormonal effects on drug seeking / David C.S. Roberts -- Smoking, eating, stress, and drug use : sex defferences / Neil E. Grunberg -- Translating basic research into the clinical setting / James R. Woods -- Psychosocial and behavioral treatments for women / Karla Moras -- Pharmacology : sex-specific considerations in the use of psychoactive medications / Sidney Schnoll -- Researcher/sex issues /Jacqueline Wallen -- Service provider/treatment access issues / Shirley D. Coletti -- The etiology and genetic epidemiology of psychiatric and drug disorders among women / Kathleen R. Merikangas -- Childhood and adolescent precursors to drug use / Judith S. Brook -- Victimization and posttraumatic stress disorder / Dean G. Kilpatrick -- Harm reduction / Marsha Rosenbaum -- Stress and coping among women / R. Lorraine Collins -- Medical and health consequences of HIV/AIDS and drug abuse / Peter A. Selwyn -- Social and behavioral consequences / Rafaela R. Robles -- The consequences of drug dependence on social supports, high-risk sexual behaviors, and homelessness / Adeline Nyamathi -- Psychiatric sequelae of drug abuse / Linda B. Cottler -- Partner violence / Brenda A. Miller -- Links between prevention and treatment / Karol L. Kumpfer -- Intervention, outreach, and special needs / Kathy Sanders-Phillips -- Punishing women for their behavior during pregnancy : an approach that undermines the health of women and children / Lynn M. Paltrow -- African-American women and trauma : depression, drugs, and families / Sheryl Brissett-Chapman -- Drug abuse and HIV among lesbians / Marjorie J. Plumb -- Hispanic women / Margarita Alegria -- Research needs of American Indian women / Pamela Jumper-Thurman -- Concluding remarks / David J. Mactas -- Toward the development of a drug abuse research agenda on the health of women / Richard A. Millstein.

ISBN

0160495709

LCCN

98157898

OCLC

• ocm39222154
• SCSB-1019915

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library