Gender Differences in Clinical and Sociodemographic Pattern of Substance Use Disorder

Abstract

Substance-related disorders are not limited to any particular country or world region. Focusing onEgypt during the last few decades, and to be more specific during the past five decades, the changes that have affected the Egyptian society from socio-economic changes and the low level of awareness among the Egyptians about the seriousness of drugs, not only on the health side, but on all aspects of life. The relationship between gender and drug abuse is one of the most important topics that concern the workers in the field of addiction treatment and has been studied in many studies, some studies indicate important differences between male and female alcoholics and cocaine and opiate users with far-reaching assessment and treatment implications, also the routes to entering drug addiction are significantly different between men and women.