The Most Addictive Drugs Women Should Avoid.

One might expect that the most addictive drugs would be gender equal across the board. One could easily conclude that if they are the most addictive drugs in men that they would be the most addictive drugs in women.

Removing non-narcotic, highly addictive drugs like caffeine and nicotine off the table, leaves us with a most addictive drugs list including narcotics and alcohol.

What we have found is that one drug is not necessarily more addictive in women over men but studies have shown that certain drugs do effect brain chemistry and behaviour more dramatically in women versus men addicted to the same drugs.

Just ask Julie, an Addictions Support Worker, who has worked in addiction treatment centre with addicted women for the past 20 years.

“I have worked in co-ed addiction treatment centres and women’s only addiction treatment centre’s and hands down, the two worst drugs are opiates like heroin, Fentanyl, Oxycontin and methamphetamine.”

“You don’t need to have a degree in Addictions to see the difference between users. When a women addicted to methamphetamine or heroin arrives at the centre, it’s always pure chaos, no matter what you do, for the first 2 weeks.”

Addiction Doctors will tell you that both of these narcotics, although stimulate and impair different receptors in the brain, the damage is catastrophic and it takes these clients much longer to stabilize and creates erratic behaviour during early addiction treatment recovery.”

This article is not meant to minimize the other addictive substances women use. When it comes to detox, alcohol detox and benzodiazepine detox are by far, the worst detox experiences for any women going through a drug addiction but it’s the post acute withdrawal phase that gets ugly for the opiate and methamphetamine users and what makes their long term recovery experience much more unpleasant.

Symptoms of Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome

• Mood swings
• Anxiety
• Irritability
• Tiredness
• Variable energy
• Low enthusiasm
• Variable concentration
• Disturbed sleep

Women who are drug addicted opiate and methamphetamine users, who endure the detox phase and enter into post acute withdrawal syndrome, which can last up to one year, by the way, mostly suffer from mood swings, anxiety, and irritability which makes it very difficult for counsellors and family to work with them.

It takes considerable time, patience and tolerance to help a suffering women in recovery.

We wrote this article not as a clinical document, there are plenty of those online for you to read but rather a cautionary tale.

If you or a loved one is falling into the trap of substance abuse, it is not an easy trap to escape from, especially for women.

And like we said in our opening, it’s not that the most addictive drugs for women are any more addictive than in men but the behaviour is extreme, their resistance to recovery is much worse, and their overall ability to recover is a much steeper hill.

Women are our creators, givers, artists, and caregivers. Our women need to be nurtured and cared for, early on.

9 times out of 10, a women entering detox or rehab have suffered some form of mental or physical abuse, and their self esteem is very low. Her drug addiction helps her avoid facing the trauma because the most addictive drugs work. They freeze and numb the mind into a condition where a women doesn’t have to look at their pain and trauma. The most addictive drugs work – they do their job effectively.

Our strong advice is to pursue counselling before you fall into drug addiction because for women, it’s a horrible experience to escape from. It can be done, there is hope with the right professional help but it’s better for a women to never discover the most addictive drugs ever, at all costs.

What are the Most Addictive Drugs for Women? ©

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