Tyler J, Frith G H
Drug Alcohol Depend. 1981 Dec;8(4):279-86. doi: 10.1016/0376-8716(81)90037-5.
This study focuses on women's primary patterns of abuse for selected drugs (heroin, marijuana, barbiturates, amphetamines, sedatives, and tranquilizers) at treatment admission in relation to age at first use, marital status, education status, and race. The sample consisted of 51 390 women admitted to treatment during a recent 12 month period. The results indicated that heroin was the most abuse drug in relation to all the variables examined. Those clients who never married and those unemployed at the time of admission reported the greatest abuse of each of the primary drugs investigated. More than half of the sample had their first drug experience before age 18. This suggests the need to educate young women about drugs and to make professionals in schools and communities more aware of the nature of this problem in order that prevention and treatment programs can be developed to meet women's specific needs.
本研究聚焦于女性在治疗入院时对特定药物（海洛因、大麻、巴比妥类药物、安非他命、镇静剂和 tranquilizers）的主要滥用模式，这些模式与首次使用药物的年龄、婚姻状况、教育程度和种族相关。样本包括在最近 12 个月期间入院接受治疗的 51390 名女性。结果表明，就所考察的所有变量而言，海洛因是滥用最为严重的药物。那些从未结婚以及入院时失业的服务对象报告称，所调查的每一种主要药物的滥用情况最为严重。超过一半的样本在 18 岁之前就有了首次吸毒经历。这表明有必要对年轻女性进行毒品教育，并让学校和社区的专业人员更加了解这一问题的本质，以便能够制定预防和治疗方案来满足女性的特定需求。 （注：原文中tranquilizers未准确翻译，一般可译为“镇静催眠药”等 ）
