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Women make up growing percentage of meth treatment patients.
2004 NOV 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women make up a growing percentage of people being treated for methamphetamine addiction in Montana, new state health figures show.
Health and addiction experts say the increase could be attributed to a growing number of women using the drug not only recreationally, but to help lose weight, combat fatigue and deal with low self-esteem.
"Meth provides a Superman/Superwoman complex," said Glen Hansen, MD, senior adviser to the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Washington, D.C. "And some people turn to it because it helps them to deal with the pain and self-esteem problems of abusive relationships."
Statistics from the state health department's Addiction and Mental Disorders Division show that women made up 49% of the patients treated in Montana for a primary addiction to methamphetamine in fiscal 2004, which ended last June 30.
By contrast, women made up only 40% of those being treated for meth addiction 2 years earlier, the agency said.
Meth addiction is the third most common drug addiction treated in the state, following alcoholism and marijuana dependency.
But women make up a much greater portion of those being treated for meth addiction than for other drugs. Last fiscal year, only 29% of those being treated for alcohol abuse were women, while 24% of the ...
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