Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction

• Drug Use and Risks for HIV/AIDS Among Indigent Women in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
• Temporal Trends in HIV Risk Behaviors Among Out-of-Treatment Women Crack Users: The Need for Drug Treatment
• Drug Use Patterns of Substance Abusing Women: Gender and Ethnic Differences in an AIDS Prevention Program
• Differences Found Between Women Injectors In and Out of Treatment: Implications for Interventions
• Ethnic and Cultural Differences in Drug-Using Women Who Are In and Out of Treatment
• How Are Women Who Enter Substance Abuse Treatment Different than Men? A Gender Comparison from the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS)
• Gender Differences in Risk Factors for Gonorrhea Among Alaskan Drug Users
• Women and Violence: A Different Look
• Physicians’ Assessment of Drug Use and Other HIV Risk Behavior: Reports by Female Drug Users
• Revealing Drug Use to Prenatal Providers: Who Tells or Who Is Asked?
• Pregnancy Among Women with a History of Injection Drug Use
• Developing Comprehensive Prison-Based Therapeutic Community Treatment for Women
• Residential Treatment for Women: Behavioral and Psychological Outcomes
• Residential Treatment for Drug Addicted Women and Their Children: Effective Treatment Strategies
• Gender Differences in the Economic Impacts of Clients Before, During, and After Substance Abuse Treatment
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

About the Author

Wexler, Harry K; Stevens, Sally J