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The result of the combined efforts of staff at a substance abuse treatment center, this book provides practical, hands-on guidance for working with addicted women. With staff and client training exercises at the end of each chapter, this comprehensive guide places particular emphasis on the women and their special needs and concerns. Special issues and populations addressed include: pregnancy and substance abuse; designing treatment programs; homeless women; and substance abuse in the workplace.
Homeless Women
Homeless Women
“First one survives, then one goes on to live.” This is the philosophy of a small shelter for alcoholics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its late director, Theresa Rowe, fully understood what it was to be a homeless alcoholic woman. She was a recovering alcoholic who had lived on the streets while she was actively drinking. She had experienced firsthand the danger and degradation of being an alcoholic woman, poor and abandoned. “They called me an it,” she said. “No matter how many baths I took, I still felt dirty inside.” Poverty, loss of connections and relationships, and often the death or removal of children can precipitate an alcoholic woman into the terror and isolation of living on the streets. The stigma of alcoholism ...
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