SOME INTRESTING FACTS

1.Women absorb alcohol into the bloodstream faster and metabolize it slower than men.

2.Women who drink regularly are at significantly greater risk for liver damage than men even if they drink less or drink for a shorter period of time.

3.Women develop alcoholic liver disease after a comparatively shorter period of heavy drinking and at a lower level of daily drinking than men.28

4.Proportionately more alcoholic women die from cirrhosis than do alcoholic men.27

5.The odds of women experiencing sexual aggression were nine times higher on heavy days of alcohol consumption compared with days of no alcohol consumption.1

6.There is a greater incidence of alcohol misuse in women with eating disorders, especially bulimia, than in the general population.2

7.Girls who start dieting in sixth grade are more likely to engage in alcohol misuse later in life.2

8.A growing body of literature shows that substance abuse among women and the issues surrounding their abuse differ from that among men.