Logo image
Back
Gender Differences and Similarities in African-American Crack Cocaine Abusers
Journal article   Peer reviewed

Gender Differences and Similarities in African-American Crack Cocaine Abusers

ALLAN Lundy, EDWARD Gottheil, RONALD Serota, STEPHEN Weinstein and ROBERT Sterling
The journal of nervous and mental disease, v 183(4), pp 260-266
Apr 1995
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-199504000-00013
PMID: 7714515
Featured in Collection :   UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel

Abstract

Recent interest in womenʼs health and patient-treatment matching has focused attention on gender differences among substance abusers. This article seeks to extend research in this area to African-American crack cocaine abusers. It describes gender differences and similarities in a large sample (652 males and 595 females) of this important group of patients at a publicly funded, inner-city intensive outpatient clinic. As in previous studies on white working-class inpatients, few significant gender differences were found on demographic characteristics or drug use or treatment histories. Moreover, there were few differences in psychiatric symptomatology, and none in treatment participation or retention. In contrast to some reports, we did not find that women entered treatment with higher levels of depression than men. Most statistically significant differences we found were either too small to be of practical importance, or reflected conventional gender differences ( e. g., women were more likely to care for dependents).—J Nerv Ment Dis 183:260-266, 1995

Metrics

1 Record Views
45 citations in Web of Science

Details

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

This publication has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:

#3 Good Health and Well-Being

Source: SDGs in the Output

InCites Highlights

Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:

Web of Science research areas
Clinical Neurology
Psychiatry
Logo image