CLINICAL FEATURES OF HIGHLY PROGRESSIVE TYPE OF OPIOID DEPENDENCE IN WOMEN
The purpose of this study was to investigate the type of highly progressive drug addiction of opioid-dependent women. 102 patients were examined in the given work. The main group included 54 women and the control group included 55 men. The study found out that women who used heroin were significantly younger (p=0.01), among them there were significantly more individuals (OR 6.0, {95% CI 1.48–24.3}; p=0.02) having highly progressive drug addiction and all those started to use drugs intravenously at the significantly younger age (p=0.04). Many women with highly progressive drug addiction interrupted the course of treatment. As a rule, after leaving the hospital they returned to the socially-unengaged lifestyle and to the same social environment, especially, when it comes to drug-dependant sexual partners.