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An article in the London Evening Standard has described how London's only women-only treatment centre aimed at helping those with alcohol dependency has tripled in size to cope with an increasing amount of cases. Hope House was previously located in an eight bedroom facility in Maida Vale, and due to the increase in demand, has now had to move to a building in Clapham Common which has a bed capacity of twenty-three.

Whilst the centre is aimed at those individuals that have already successfully completed an alcohol detox, it helps to rehabilitate those individuals back into society so that they can learn to live a life free of alcohol dependency and its associated issues.

The article suggests that the increase in women requiring such help may be, in part, due to the current binge-drinking culture that teenage girls are becoming involved in. Research shows that British teenage girls are out-drinking boys. The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs, of 15 and 16-year-olds in 35 countries, found that 55 per cent of girls admitted binge-drinking, compared with 52 per cent of boys.

The Director of Action on Addiction, Amanda Williams, also discusses how professional women are more likely to drink regularly due to their lifestyle, and how single mothers can also be a group that is particularly susceptible to alcohol dependence.

Hope House was set up twenty years ago and offers help to women from all works of life, providing privately funded support, as well as NHS support. The director of the facility indicates that women often achieve more successful results when they work in conjunction without women; issues covered at the facility include abuse, eating disorders and guilt they may feel at not being with their children.

Source: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23682008-women-only-clinic-for-addicts-triples-in-size-as-cases-soar.do

Published by Addiction Advisor on 04/08/2011.

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