Women More Likely to Experience Drug Addiction

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Approximately 4.5 million women in the U.S. have some sort of drug abuse problem. And studies estimate that women are more likely to experience chronic pain and anxiety than men, and become addicted more quickly than men if they are prescribed opioids. Women's health specialist Dr. Kirtly Parker Jones examines this pressing societal problem for American women today and discusses what physicians and caregivers should do.

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Date Recorded: March 22, 2018
Health Topics (The Scope Radio): Womens Health
Transcription: Dr. Jones:
In the tragedy of the opioid epidemic, a new group of Americans has emerged as the most likely to die of prescription opioid overdose -- m… Show More
Appears In: Radio Scope 2018 Seven Domains of Women's Health with Dr. Kirtly Jones Scope Health Library

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