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Women’s Drug Treatment – The First Step to Freedom
Everyday in California hundreds of women enter into a drug abuse treatment facility, many of these women seeking treatment have battled their addiction to drugs for many years before actually seeking treatment.
The Facts
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2006, 23.6 million persons aged 12 or older needed treatment for an illicit drug or alcohol abuse problem (9.6 percent of the persons aged 12 or older). Of these, only 2.5 million-10.8 percent of those who needed treatment-received it at a specialty facility. From this total, almost half of this number (23.6 million) were women.
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