여성 알코올 의존：임상적 특징과 치료 = Women’s Alcohol Dependence：Clinical Characteristics and Treatment

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

There have been increased opportunities for women to take over traditional male roles, which enabled and encouraged women to have increased social drinking, consequently causing alcohol dependence. This review explores characteristics and treatment issues of female patients with alcohol dependence. Recent evidences suggest that alcohol-related problems develop later but progress rapidly in women. Women are more likely to have alcohol-related physical and psychological problems with smaller amount and shorter overall period of alcohol consumption than men. Also, they seemed to have more alcohol-induced cognitive and emotional disturbances. Gender issues and cultural factors may be contributory to this. it may be due to combination effect of gender and culture. There are also evidences that women may have more premorbid psychiatric problems than men. There was a significantly higher lifetime prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity in women than in men with alcohol dependence.