CrossCurrents Spring 2007

CrossCurrents

Spring 2007

Focus: Gender Matters - Taking action on women and substance use
- Gender does matter: Coalescing on women and substance use
- A good place to start: What does women-specific substance use treatment look like?
- Misconceiving mothers: Women-centred care key to FASD prevention
- Who cares? Mothers forced to choose between treatment and their kids
- Lessons from the street: One woman's return from the road to nowhere
- Surviving the sex trade: Project focuses on reducing HIV-related harms
- Wasting away: The double danger of eating disorders and substance use
- Q&A: Common questions about trauma and substance use among women
Note from the Editor
A view from CAMH
Profile
- Peer-led program asks "What's with Weed?"
News
- Does psychiatry have a place in palliative care?
- The courage to laugh: Comedy program fights stigma, boosts self-esteem
Research Update
- brain recovery and alcohol / separation anxiety link to adult disorders / substance use, cognition and early psychosis / gender in binge drinking and depression / dihydrocodeine as alternative to methadone / supportive mothers and schizophrenia / shorter hospital stays for youth
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The Last Word
- Why do girls smoke?
Conferences