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Women For Sobriety
In: Encyclopedia of Drug Policy
Women For Sobriety
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412976961.n377
Subject: Public Policy, Drug Crimes
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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. 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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