The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyze how abused women with drug problems are described in texts addressed to professionals in the social work area. By critical discourse analysis and taking a starting point in Beverly Skegg´s theory about respectability my study finds two main discourses featuring the material; a out-distancing discourse and a passivation discourse. The study discusses in what way these traced discourses feature the images of partly women with drug problems, partly female addiction together with factors which have been based on the discourses mentioned. The study finds that phraseology and thereby the image of a woman with drug problems and of the female addiction is generalized and that respectability can be regarded as an underlying cause which makes this generalization possible.