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Addiction Medicine
Treating drug-addicted doctors is good medicine
March 14th, 2009
Doctors who become addicted to alcohol and other drugs can be treated successfully and returned to medical practice with the help of special programs that couple referral to treatment and monitoring with rapid responses to noncompliance, University of Florida researchers report. The study is the first national-level analysis of such Physician Health Programs, and confirms they are effective alternatives to simply punishing drug-addicted doctors. The findings are published in the March issue of the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. More than three-quarters of doctors enrolled in state programs stayed drug-free over a five-year monitoring period....
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-03-14)
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