Lesson 29: Alcohol and You - Slide  34

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Perception Of Women Who Drink

  • Women who drink meet with more disapproval of their drinking than men do
  • The divorce rate for alcoholic women is higher than for alcoholic men
  • This means women are less likely to leave relationships with alcoholic men than the reverse
  • Women who drink heavily are at much higher risk for domestic violence and sexual assault than women who don’t drink
  • A recent study of 3000 college women found that the more alcohol a woman consumed, the higher her chances were of being sexually victimized
  • DIVORCE

Notes:

Pg. 51-52, “Buzzed, The Straight Facts About The Most Used And Abused Drugs From Alcohol To Ecstasy, Second Edition” Cynthia Kuhn, Ph.D., Scott Swartzwelder,Ph.D. and Wilkie Wilson, Ph.D., W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2003

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