10-15% of health professionals will develop an addiction at some point in their lives. Another important statistic is that 30-35% of those health professionals with an addiction will also have an additional mental illness such as depression, bipolar illness (also...
One of the purposes of in-patient addiction rehab is to remove the person from his or her environment. That’s because being exposed to those well-known harmful associations, including friends, is one of the biggest causes of relapse.
Experts may disagree on how long in-patient rehab should be – one month, three months, six months — but none of it matters, if the addict reconnects with the old influences after being discharged. This environmental factor (friend, acquaintances, associations […]
The opioid epidemic is causing tens of thousands of deaths a year in North America, largely due to the diversion of prescription opiates.
When I was practicing as a family doctor, I remember statements made by representatives of these drug companies assuring doctors that addiction could never be caused by prescribing narcotics for legitimate chronic pain. Now we see lawsuits have been launched against pharmaceutical companies associated with these drugs. […]
If I were limited to giving no more than one piece of advice to a graduating class of health professionals, it would be this: get yourselves first-class disability insurance now, while you’re still young and healthy!
Health professionals generally have far worse disability coverage than many other professions. Non-salaried medical doctors often have none! One of the reasons health professionals are so reticent to seek and comply with treatment for […]
Physicians, and health professionals in general, are reluctant to seek professional help for addiction problems and mental illness. Though many people have gone on to have healthy careers, despite some of these issues, there is still fear of public scrutiny that prevents people from reaching out.
There’s also concerns about having to make disclosures to regulatory bodies, suffering loss of income having a license revoked. However, mental illness affects at least […]
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