Highs & Lows: Testimonials

This text is testament to the leadership and focus that the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health has brought to understanding substance use among women and girls in Canada over the past decade and that the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has brought to developing authoritative information resources for those who work with people with substance use problems.”

Michel Perron
Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

Overall, the book effectively provides a forum that allows the voices of women to be heard. It presents a women-centered approach to understanding women’s substance use behavior and treatment needs using a feminist theoretical framework. Throughout this book, the unique voices and perspectives of women are raised: to describe, to inform, to question, and to challenge readers to think beyond traditional paradigms regarding women substance users and conventional or established approaches to intervention with them.....
This book provides readers with an excellent overview of the research, policy, and practice issues and challenges related to women and substance use in Canada. The editors successfully met their goal of presenting a gendered viewpoint and women-centered approach to women’s problems with substances use.
Laura Ting, Ph.D, LCSW-C
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Maryland
Substance Use & Misuse, 43:8

This important and paradigm changing book articulates the gendered influences on girl’s and women’s substance use and abuse as well as the programmatic and policy changes necessary to improve addiction services for girls and women. Nancy Poole and Lorraine Greaves are leaders in demonstrating the complex and varied interconnections between women’s and girl’s substance use, mental health problems and histories of violence/trauma, which point to the need for significant shifts in practice, policy and research. To help support this understanding the book commendably includes the voices of women with substance use problems, along with service providers, clinicians, and policy makers.

Norma Finkelstein, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Institute for Health and Recovery

AWARE has engaged in many collaborations with Nancy Poole, Lorraine Greaves and the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health because of their commitment to valuing the expertise of all those with an interest in women’s substance use including, most importantly, women with substance use problems. This book exemplifies their approach to valuing both evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence.

Wendy Reynolds
Action on Women's Addictions-Research and Education (AWARE) Kingston, Ontario

The issue of women and substance use is causing increasing concern all over the world. This timely book contains not only up-to-date scientific evidence but also the stories of the women themselves.. This book is a real and substantial addition to the literature.

Moira Plant, PhD
Professor of Alcohol Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

As a hospital-based clinician, it was a pleasure to have the opportunity to contribute to the articulation of promising practices in the treatment of women with substance use problems. This book offers particularly valuable views of the integrated and harm reducing approaches to treating women with mental health, trauma-related and substance problems that we have implemented in hospital and community settings over the past decade in Canada.

Peter Selby, MBBS, CCFP, MHSc, FASAM,
Clinical Director, Addictions Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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