This account was created to call attention to the issue: Doctors who have experienced drug abuse, and still hold their position within the medical community.
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7 Dec 2016
Everyone please go like my Facebook page for more information! facebook.com/Doctors-In-Need…
7 Dec 2016
Physicians who met the criteria for abuse and dependence were more likely to say they had committed a major medical error than their peers.
7 Dec 2016
Interesting how that works. x.com/AnilMohanlal/status/79…
24 Oct 2016
#Doctors have the shortest lifespan, highest drug abuse, top divorce rates and second highest suicide rates. And we go to them for help
7 Dec 2016
The environment in which physicians practice often exacerbates the problem.
7 Dec 2016
Between 10% and 15% of US physicians suffer from a substance use disorder.
7 Dec 2016
Drug Abuse Among Doctors: Easy, Tempting, and Not Uncommon medscape.com/viewarticle/819… via @medscape
7 Dec 2016
Humans in distress have always reached for relief close at hand. In the case of doctors, that's often prescription medicine.
7 Dec 2016
As a doctor slips into the clutches of addiction, he or she only rarely seeks help.
7 Dec 2016
A 2013 study in the Journal of Addiction Medicine revealed that 69% of doctors abused prescription medicine “to relieve stress and pain"
7 Dec 2016
This account was created to call attention to the issue: Doctors who have experienced drug abuse, and still hold their position as doctor.
Doctor with history of drug abuse arrested in Orange County on warrants for drug cases in Mill Valley, San Rafael. ow.ly/fRIdf
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