February 15, 2004
WFS: Women For Sobriety
A non-profit organization dedicated to helping women overcome alcoholism and other addictions (per the WFS home page).
From the WFS site’s introduction page:
Why A Program For Women Only?
Until the founding of WFS, it was assumed that any program for recovery from alcoholism would work equally well for women as for men.
When it became obvious that recovery rates for male alcoholics were higher than for females, it was then declared that women were harder to treat and were less cooperative than male alcoholics.
WFS came forth with the belief that women alcoholics require a different kind of program in recovery than the kinds of programs used for male alcoholics.
The success of the WFS “New Life” Program has shown this to be true. Although the physiological recovery from alcoholism is the same for both sexes, the psychological (emotional) needs for women are very different in recovery from those of the male alcoholic.
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