Studies Show New Insights into Women and Alcohol Abuse
Due to the cycle of hormone levels, women’s bodies actually intervene in how alcohol affects them, making them mush less affected to any affects.
From studies on both human and animal test subjects, When they drink less alcohol and even for much less time periods, the female test subjects still showed the same intoxication levels as males with more alcohol and longer drinking times. The study showed conclusively that there is something specific about what makes up the female body and its chemistry to affect women in such a way.
This study is especially alarming in view of the fact that drinking in the United Kingdom has increased within young women. The drinking industry is responding in turn to make drinking opportunities even more accessible through its marketing campaigns, much to the chagrin of those centers in charge of alcohol treatment and residential drug treatment.
A recent study found about drinking and women in Britain discovered that those women in the age bracket of eighteen to twenty four years of age are the biggest group of people to consume alcohol in Europe. Per capita, they drank in comparison to the 59 liters Italian women drank 203 liters. It will probably rise and not decrease as another year rolls around, which means a rise should be expected in alcohol abuse intervention as drinking becomes more and more a part of the female social world.
Women not only have to worry about being pressured to drink more through intense marketing campaigns from alcohol trades and businesses but also about the possible affects that they could occur from becoming dependent upon alcohol. Addiction treatment studies show that many of the same symptoms those women with alcoholism suffer from are similar to those affecting victims of PTSD.
The kind of treatment involved in helping these women include two kinds of cognitive behavioral treatments called Relapse Prevention Treatment and Seeking Safety. So far these two treatments have been very successful. They are used in a three month time frame with a group of 32 women participating the study. Many women were victims of both PTSD and alcoholism.
The Relapse Prevention Treatment has started to gain in popularity, known for its excellent care and checkups that help women to continue in their sobriety and road to recovery. Like many other centers, it focuses on figuring out what triggers relapses and cravings in order to help women to take control of them.
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