Portland Public Library

Woman of substances, Jenny Valentish

eng

Includes bibliographical references

no index present

non fiction

Woman of substances

bibliography

1079206147

Jenny Valentish

Part memoir, part investigation into the relationship between gender and addiction and how treatment options are failing women

Introduction -- Part One: Predictors of a problem -- 1. The petri dish of you: how childhood temperament can foreshadow substance use -- 2. Chaos theory: impulsivity, and how it escapes detection in teenage girls -- 3. Baby misogynist: hitching identity to drink, drugs and men -- Part two: Gendered adventures in addiction -- 4. Total control: self-destruction as a method of autonomy -- 5. Amateur alchemy: self-medicating mental illness and tweaking personality -- 6. A crude form of seduction: the sugar-daddy mentoring scheme of drugs -- 7. Pretty intense: promiscuity, borderline personality disorder and other labels that only come in pink -- 8. Collateral damage: blacking out, passing out, spiking ... and the opportunists who dig it -- 9. Body of evidence: the effects of substances on the female body and vice versa -- 10. Your brain as a pokie machine: other risky behaviours that hit the dopamine jackpot -- 11. The geographical: running away to the edge of the world and falling off -- Part three: Woman's lib -- 12. 52 observations: a week-by-week account of my first year after quitting -- 13. A word from my sponsor: the female spaces in AA and NA -- 14. Keeping mum: when addiction infiltrates the family home -- 15. A call to arms: how drug and alcohol research can fail women -- 16. Choose your own adventure: eight ideas for emancipation you way -- Acknowledgements -- Selected reading