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Alcohol & Drug Abuse: What Is "Women-Focused" Treatment for Substance Use Disorders?

Dr. Greenfield, who is editor of this column, is affiliated with the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, and the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 115 Mill St., Belmont, MA 02478 (e-mail: sgreenfield{at}mclean.harvard.edu). Dr. Grella is with UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles.

Over the past three decades research has highlighted gender differences in substance use disorders and substance abuse treatment participation. Programs devoted to addressing women's treatment needs, broadly encompassed in the term "women-focused treatment," have multiplied. This column examines the rationale for women-focused treatment and describes some of its components. The authors cite the need to evaluate women-focused treatment by developing validated measures of the processes embodied in such treatment and by conducting empirically sound research on clinical outcomes, treatment effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and the optimal means of providing services to women with substance use disorders.

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