The Fix: 'You have to take into account the challenges that women face'

Milly Chowles visits a women-only treatment centre. What is it about women's experiences of addiction, treatment and recovery that might make a single-sex space for some women with addiction problems?

29 December 2017

8 minutes

This clip is from

Woman's Hour—Poet and writer Nan Shepherd; The Fix: Women and Addiction; Siblings and their partners.

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