Discriminating drug-dependent women from alcoholic women and drug-dependent men

The authors compared 99 drug-dependent women to 162 alcoholic women and 66 drug-dependent men entering an outpatient treatment program. They were assessed by a semistructured interview for demography, progression of dependence prior to entering treatment, prior suicidal behavior, and baseline functi...

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Published in:Addictive behaviors 2003-09, Vol.28 (7), p.1343-1349
Main Authors: Zilberman, Monica L., Tavares, Hermano, Andrade, Arthur G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addictive behaviors
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Alcohol
Alcoholism
Alcoholism - classification
Biological and medical sciences
Brazil - epidemiology
Clinical Protocols
Desintoxication. Drug withdrawal
Drug
Drugs
Female
Gender
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Prejudice
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Sex Factors
Substance abuse treatment
Substance-Related Disorders - classification
Substance-Related Disorders - psychology
Substance-Related Disorders - therapy
Treatment
Treatment Outcome
Treatments
Women
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Summary:The authors compared 99 drug-dependent women to 162 alcoholic women and 66 drug-dependent men entering an outpatient treatment program. They were assessed by a semistructured interview for demography, progression of dependence prior to entering treatment, prior suicidal behavior, and baseline functioning in different areas (alcohol/drug use, occupation, family relationships, and leisure activities). Discriminant analysis techniques were good at predicting group membership for all groups, with an overall correct classification of 69%; though at a lesser degree for the group of drug-dependent women (55%). Among those drug-dependent women misclassified, two-thirds were reclassified into the drug-dependent men group and the remaining third into the alcoholic women group. Taken together, these findings suggest that the drug-dependent women are a distinct group of substance users, who show more heterogeneous characteristics, as well as sharing more features with the drug-dependent men. This should be taken into account when devising treatment strategies for this specific population.
ISSN:0306-4603
1873-6327
DOI:10.1016/S0306-4603(02)00252-6