SA 121 - Special Needs - Women

Credit Hours: 3

This course is designed to address women’s issues surrounding gender, identity and chemical dependency. Women experience chemical dependency different than men. We know women’s use is often precipitated by a life event, often a loss, typically related to either and important relationship or a traumatic event. Women’s drug use may start later in life, it progresses more rapidly and with more devastating physiological consequences. Women’s chemical dependency use puts them more at risk for injury or death, whether from elements of the lifestyle, car accidents, suicide, increased rates of liver disease or cancer.
F/S (C)