Table of Contents:
  • Sex differences in alcohol and drug problems-some highlights / Oriana Josseau Kalant
  • Temperance and women in 19th-century United States / Harry Gene Levine
  • Sex differences in the prevalence of problem drinking / Roberta G. Ferrence
  • Sex differences in psychoactive drug use : recent epidemiology / Roberta G. Ferrence and Paul C. Whitehead
  • Longitudinal studies of alcohol and drug problems : sex differences / Lee N. Robins and Elizabeth M. Smith
  • Sex differences in the inheritance of alcoholism / Richard P. Swinson
  • Some behavioral and biological aspects of alcohol problems in women / Nancy K. Mello
  • Nature and development of alcoholism in women / Wilfred E. Boothroyd
  • Sex differences in morbidity of alcoholics / Patricia Wilkinson
  • Sex differences in mortality : a comparison of male and female alcoholics / Wolfgang Schmidt and Robert E. Popham
  • Alcoholism in women : treatment modalities and outcomes / Helen M. Annis and Carolyn B. Liban
  • Dependence on psychotropic drugs and analgesics in man and women / David S. Bell
  • Opiate dependence in women / Catherine A. Martin and William R. Martin
  • Problems related to the use of tobacco by women / Ellen R. Gritz
  • Sex differences in the effects of alcohol and other psychoactive drugs on endocrine function : clinical and experimental evidence / Theodore J. Cicero
  • The effects of alcohol on the fetus and offspring / Henry L. Rosett
  • The effects of opiates, sedative-hypnotics, amphetamines, cannabis, and other psychoactive drugs in the fetus and newborn / Loretta P. Finnegan and Kevin O'Brien Fehr.