alcohol and women

The specific dangers of alcohol abuse for women. Alcohol hurts women more.

Women are at a greater risk to develop addictions, to succumb to acute alcohol poisoning, and to develop a host of physical and mental deficits. Women are more likely to die from cirrhosis, and more likely to get certain cancers and more likely to experience alcohol induced cardiac disease. All people abusing alcohol need treatment help, but women abusers seem especially needy of timely intervention and treatment. read more...