Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Part One: Predictors of a Problem; 1. The Petri Dish of You; 2. Baby Misogynist; 3. Chaos Theory; Part Two: Gendered Adventures in Addiction; 4. Total Control; 5. Amateur Alchemy; 6. A Crude Form of Seduction; 7. Pretty Intense; 8. Collateral Damage; 9. Body of Evidence; 10. Your Brain as a Pokie Machine; 11. The Geographical; Part Three: Woman's Lib; 12. 52 Observations; 13. A Word From My Sponsor; 14. Keeping Mum; 15. A Call to Arms; 16. Choose Your Own Adventure; Acknowledgements; Selected Reading; Back Cover
Summary
Journalist Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way. Her travels around Australia take her to treatment facilities and AA groups. Mining the expertise of leading researchers, she explores the early predictors of addiction, such as childhood trauma and temperament, and teenage impulsivity. Drawing on neuroscience, she explains why other self-destructive behaviours - such as eating disorders, compulsive buying and high-risk sex - are interchangeable with problematic substance use. Valentish follows the pathways that women, in particular, take into addiction - and out again
