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For many decades, the science of addictive behaviours focused on men, but since the 1990s, it has been recognized that gender differences are important for a more accurate understanding of addiction and for more effective treatment of girls and women who use drugs. In this volume, the characteristics of women and drug use are described in the light of the latest international and domestic research, as well as clinical practices. What do we know about women's substance use? In which theoretical models can it be interpreted? What treatments are effective? To what extent is the knowledge gained about women's substance use integrated into the treatment? What are the supporting and hindering factors for girls and women to receive treatment? To what extent are the knowledge gained about women's substance use valid in professional policy decisions? What other factors unrelated to drug use influence the knowledge, ideas, and attitudes of professionals and decision-makers? How does professional policy address intersectionality and diversity in the context of women's substance use? It is worth discussing women's substance use by breaking it down into three major topics: theories, research and interventions. This triple structure is followed by this manual, which places female substance use in models and theories of addiction, presents the characteristics of female substance use, describes the results of a qualitative research conducted among pregnant substance-using women in Budapest, and summarizes the hallmarks of effective treatment and professional policy sensitive to female substance use. Zsuzsa Kaló is an assistant professor at the Institute of Psychology at the Eötvös Loránd University of ELTE, a founding member of the ELTE Qualitative Psychology Research Group, president of the AKUT Foundation - for social integration, board member of the Hungarian Addiction Society, and plays an active role in many international professional organizations. Her main research areas are qualitative psychological studies, qualitative drug research, exploring the connections between women's trauma and drug use, as well as the topic of the use of new psychoactive drugs.