CSA and Women's Substance Abuse\



Substance Abuse in women and children

Introduction

Clinical studies have shown that women, who have experienced sexual abuse in their childhood, are more prone to substance abuse and other psychological disorders such as suicide attempts and depression during their adulthood. A history of childhood sexual abuse is most often a leading cause for sustenance of addictive behavior and etiology for women substance abusers (Kellogg, Burge & Taylor, 2000). This is mainly due to the fact that women, who self-report a history of childhood sexual abuse, have the greater tendency to engage themselves in abuse of substances such as ...