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Women For Sobriety

Randolph G. Atkins

In: Encyclopedia of Drug Policy

Women For Sobriety

Edited by: Mark A. R. Kleiman & James E. Hawdon

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412976961.n377

Subject: Public Policy, Drug Crimes

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Atkins, R. (2011). Women for sobriety. In M. A. Kleiman & J. E. Hawdon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of drug policy (Vol. 1, pp. 852-853). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412976961.n377

Atkins, Randolph G. "Women For Sobriety." In Encyclopedia of Drug Policy, edited by Mark A. Kleiman and James E. Hawdon, 852-853. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011. doi: 10.4135/9781412976961.n377.

Atkins, R 2011, 'Women for sobriety', in Kleiman, MA & Hawdon, JE (eds), Encyclopedia of drug policy, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 852-853, viewed 23 September 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781412976961.n377.

Atkins, Randolph G. "Women For Sobriety." Encyclopedia of Drug Policy. Eds. Mark A. Kleiman and James E. Hawdon. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011. 852-853. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 23 Sep. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781412976961.n377.

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Women For Sobriety, Inc. (WFS) is an organization of mutual-aid recovery support groups exclusively for women having problems with alcohol. It is a nonprofit, anonymous, self-supporting organization that endorses the disease model of alcoholism, and recommends total abstinence in recovery. [Page 852]WFS maintains that women have special problems that need to be addressed in a gender-specific way. It focuses on empowering women through positive self-thought to build emotional strength and promote emotional growth. This growth leads to a new focus on spiritual development.
WFS believes that drinking begins as a way to deal with stressors, which leads to physical dependence and mental and emotional addiction. This can only be overcome by abstinence. WFS members’ develop self-knowledge and use behavior modification to promote an addiction-free way of ...

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