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Illicit Drug Use and Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health

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Historically, the use of drugs among women has been associated with prescription drugs, whereas drug use among men often is linked to the use of illegal substances such as cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine. Illicit drug use among women and the associated negative health consequences has only recently become a serious topic of investigation. Only since the 1960s have studies on the use of illicit drugs among women become common, a change that coincided with the second wave of the feminist movement in the western world. In most early 1960s/1970s studies, female drug users primarily were included as a comparison sample to male users. Consequently, the findings of these studies tended to emphasize differences between men and women, with female users typically being depicted as much more negative than their male counterparts.

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