The Correlation Between Substacne Abuse, And Abuse Agaisnt Women By Male Partners

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The Correlation Between:
Substance Abuse and Women Abuse by Male Partners

Introduction:
The relationship between substance abuse and woman abuse is in no way an easy thing for me to talk about because I cannot stand men who do this, which is the main reason I’ve researched this topic, and made my own perspective out of my readings and research. Hopefully by researching this topic, and gaining my own perspective I will understand it further, and be able to work with male clients that have done this. I feel that substance use is a risk factor, which is a direct cause to the severity of woman abuse, and that it there is no excuse for battering women. Substance abuse, as used in this paper, refers both to the abuse of alcohol or other drugs, and to dependency on alcohol or other drugs. While partner violence includes same-sex violence, this discussion of partner violence will be limited to abuse of women by their male partners or ex-partners, so the term woman abuse will be used throughout this paper. I have also included a section on the drug use, physical, and sexual abuse for street sex workers, and will give my opinions about that topic as well.

It seems to be that the simplest concept that I have gathered from my research and that I feel is the most commonly accepted, is that the chemical properties of a substance act on a part the brain responsible for inhibiting violence. However, since no inhibition center has ever been located in the brain, the disinhibition model has challenged this theory. But I feel if disinhibition explained the relationship between substance abuse and woman abuse, we would expect batterers who were substance abusers to be non-violent when their substance use was terminated. This is obviously not the case because there are many abstinent and recovering substance abusers that go through cases in domestic violence courts and also go through batterers programs. The effect of substance abuse on men who...