Women Under the Influence - National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, The
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This comprehensive and accessible book documents the physical and emotional effects of substance abuse in girls and women, explores the role of the advertising and entertainment industries in popularizing various substances of abuse, and discusses the way America responds to this enormous health problem. Along with technical analysis and research results, it includes testimonies from recovering women such as actress Jamie Lee Curtis and former Texas Governor Ann Richards.

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This comprehensive and accessible book documents the physical and emotional effects of substance abuse in girls and women, explores the role of the advertising and entertainment industries in popularizing various substances of abuse, and discusses the way America responds to this enormous health problem. Along with technical analysis and research results, it includes testimonies from recovering women such as actress Jamie Lee Curtis and former Texas Governor Ann Richards.
Autorenporträt
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University was founded in 1992 by Joseph A. Califano, Jr., who served as President Lyndon Johnson's chief assistant for domestic affairs and as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter. CASA is a research and policy organization dedicated to combating substance abuse, bringing together the professional disciplines necessary to study and combat abuse of all substances--alcohol, tobacco, and illegal, prescription, and performance-enhancing drugs--in all sectors of society.