Psychiatria pre prax 1/2011
Woman’s detoxification during the in-patient care
Detoxification means the process at the beginning of drug dependence treatment, being the first step of a long pathway which addict woman gets together with. This period can impact her relation to treatment. First empathic contact with health worker together with understanding differences from men‘s problems can improve women persistence in drug abuse treatment. Paper summarizes author‘s experience with women‘s detoxification.
Keywords: gender, detoxification, addictive substance.
