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Addiction is a disease of the brain, but it can be treated. Learn more about addiction from the Office on Women’s Health.

Learn tips to live a healthier life — physically, mentally, and emotionally from the Office on Women’s Health.

Aprende sobre las drogas para violación durante una cita y cómo se utilizan en casos de agresión sexual y violación, en la Oficina para la Salud de la Mujer.

Learn tips for staying healthy and safe during pregnancy, including calorie needs and healthy foods for mom and baby from the Office on Women’s Health.

Factors that increase your risk for high blood pressure include unhealthy lifestyle habits such as eating too much sodium, drinking too much alcohol, and being physically inactive. Other risk factors include age, family history and genetics, race and ethnicity, and sex.

Slideshow of lifestyle changes women can make to lower their risk for stroke.

Steps women can take to prevent heart disease and stroke.

Slideshow of steps women can take to lower their risk for heart disease.

People with addiction lose control over their actions. They crave and seek out drugs, alcohol, or other substances no matter what the cost—even at the risk of damaging friendships, hurting family, or losing jobs. What is it about addiction that makes people behave in such destructive ways? And why is it so hard to quit?

A fact sheet that summarizes the evidence linking alcohol consumption to the risk of various cancers. Includes information about factors that affect the risk of alcohol-associated cancers.