Between the ages of 20 and 79, about one in ten women report drinking alcohol every day and about 4 in 10 every week. There are social differences with excessive male consumers: while the latter are more numerous in disadvantaged socio-professional classes and they can attack alcohol in the morning at the bar, the women concerned willingly occupy positions of responsibility. and drink alone, to drown their stress. Another notable difference: if marriage is more of a protective factor for men, it is not for women. 

Medically, the risks – hepatic cirrhosis, high blood pressure, cardiomyopathy and gastrointestinal bleeding – are increased in women, not to mention the risks of miscarriages and fetal alcohol syndrome in pregnancy. Fortunately, women addicted to alcohol seem rather motivated to wean themselves (in particular to no longer be stigmatized and not to lose their children) and when their therapeutic care is adapted, with management of other addictions, disorders. eating behavior, anxiety, depression, etc., their chances of success are good.