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Drug and alcohol treatment have long challenged the public health infrastructures designed to deliver them. This chapter unfolds a proto-feminist history of treatment and research programmes focused on women that evolved in the mid-twentieth century. The chapter covers the history of how the treatment of women’s drug and alcohol use were spoken about prior to the rise of a feminist social movement specifically centred on women’s health and body politics.
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L. Bender (1961). ‘State Care of Emotionally and Socially Disturbed Adolescents’, in E. M. Thornton (ed.). Planning and Action for Mental Health. London: World Federation for Mental Health. 200–15; and ‘Drug Addiction in Adolescence’, Comprehensive Psychiatry, 4, 3 (1963): 181–94. The first peak arose in the wake of the Harrison Act from 1918–19.
Connecticut had one of the earliest state-funded public inebriate hospitals in the country, founded on the notion that inebriety was a disease appropriately treated through medical means (see S. W. Tracy (2005). Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press. 123–9).
On Blume’s role in the fight for labels warning consumers of alcoholic beverages of their dangers during pregnancy, see J. Golden (2005). Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 88–9.
The 1957 article was based on study of 46 alcoholic women and 55 alcoholic men in Connecticut outpatient clinics and an additional 37 alcoholic women committed to State Farm. Lisansky’s second article (1958) on the topic was ‘The Woman Alcoholic’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 315: 73–81.
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Campbell, N.D., Ettorre, E. (2011). Getting Gender on the Agenda: A History of Pioneers in Drug Treatment for Women in the United States and the United Kingdom. In: Gendering Addiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230314245_2
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