ABSTRACT
As Chapter 7 established, women drink less alcohol than men, experience fewer alcohol-related harms, and are less likely to be involved in alcoholrelated crime or accidents as a result of their own drinking. Such gender differences in the use and problem use of alcohol persist across countries, cultures and time periods (Roman 1988; Plant 1990; Goddard 1991; WHO 1992). In spite of this, over the last twenty years women have been targeted as a neglected group ‘lost’ to treatment, and increasingly, as a group at ‘high risk’ from alcohol consumption (Plant 1990a; WHO 1992).
