This blog deals with recovering addicted/alcoholic health care professionals who are frequently directed to health professional groups (HPGs) as one of the stipulated conditions necessary for them to be able to continue working in the health care field. One of...
Codependence is often associated with spouses/partners of addicts/alcoholics. However, since this is a blog site devoted to substance dependency with a particular emphasis on the health professions (a vocation particularly susceptible to codependence), I will confine my remarks to codependence...
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 […]
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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