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This sample of women in Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is drawn from a Mid-Atlantic metropolitan area and reflects the diversity that can be found in NA. Two-thirds of the sample is African-American and lives in the inner city and one-half of the sample is white and resides in surrounding working-class neighborhoods. In general, the women are economically disadvantaged, report addiction to both cocaine and heroin, and have not been in NA for very long.
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Sanders, J.M. (2014). Women and Their Drugs. In: Women in Narcotics Anonymous: Overcoming Stigma and Shame. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137430496_2
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