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Nontherapeutic Opiate Addiction in Health Professionals: A New Form of Impairment

 

作者: McAuliffeWilliam E.,  

 

期刊: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse  (Taylor Available online 1984)
卷期: Volume 10, issue 1  

页码: 1-22

 

ISSN:0095-2990

 

年代: 1984

 

DOI:10.3109/00952998409002652

 

出版商: Taylor&Francis

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

Case studies describe a new type of addicted health professional whose opiate abuse originated recreationally. Historically, health professionals have had high rates of opiate addiction, usually viewed as an occupational hazard stemming from access and from self-treatment for pain or stresses of the medical profession. Partly because addiction in health professionals was almost always therapeutic (iatrogenic) or quasi-therapeutic (stress-related), it affected them less severely than it affected heroin addicts, whose drug abuse usually began recreationally. Now, however, because recreational drug abuse has become commonplace at American colleges since the mid-1960s, a majority of young health professionals have histories of abusing drugs and some are becoming non-therapeutically addicted. Six case studies describe this new addict type, showing how the subjects went from heavy soft drug use to opiate addiction, experienced severe long-term effects, were treated by society, and responded to treatment.

 

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