Women More Likely to Experience Drug Addiction

Approximately 4.5 million women in the U.S. have some sort of drug abuse problem. And studies estimate that women are more likely to experience chronic pain and anxiety than men, and become addicted more quickly than men if they are prescribed opioids. Women's health specialist Dr. Kirtly Parker Jones examines this pressing societal problem for American women today and discusses what physicians and caregivers should do.