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Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment

A Journey into Addiction and Treatment

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Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment

By: Jenny Valentish
Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
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Journalist Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way.

Mining the expertise of leading researchers, she explores the early predictors of addiction, such as childhood trauma and temperament, and teenage impulsivity.

Drawing on neuroscience, she explains why other self-destructive behaviours - such as eating disorders and high-risk sex - are interchangeable with substance use. Valentish follows the pathways that women take into addiction - and out again. Woman of Substances is a rigorous and brutally honest listen.

©2017 Jenny Valentish (P)2017 W.F. Howes Ltd Addiction & Recovery Alcoholism Social Sciences Health Substance abuse Mental Health
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I’ve listened to a few quit lit books and they have been all been helpful. I wouldn’t have found this helpful early on, too much facts and research referred to for me to have been able to grasp early on. However now 9 months AF and I found it interesting and informative. Especially the dynamics of female addiction, treatment and research. Interesting and thought provoking.

Lots of research information

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Loved it could relate so much to th author's story. Great scientific info. Will listen to this again.

Brilliant

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I’d like this book as it had lots of interest statistics and was full of really really amazing knowledge but I found it a little bit boring

Good book, but not very eventful

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i enjoyed the book and it is well performed by the narrator. Great hearing a woman's prospective of addiction, however like my books around addiction it come from a very middle class prospective.

Great book

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I listened to this in fits and starts over the period of about a year. the first covid year. I plan to listen to it again more consistently to get more benefits.

informative and thought provoking

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