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Drug-Impaired Professionals (Paperback, Revised)
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Drug-Impaired Professionals (Paperback, Revised)
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"I started out snorting a couple of lines a night and ended up
injecting and snorting about three grams a day."--That could be
your dentist talking. "I worked a lot with hangovers and made lots
of mistakes when coming down off acid."--That might be your nurse.
"The patient was waking up and I was out cold."--And that was some
unlucky patient's anesthesiologist. Professionals trusted with our
well-being are the last people we suspect of drug addiction. And
yet they are at least as likely as anyone else to abuse alcohol and
other drugs--a well-kept secret finally aired and fully examined in
this powerful book. Drawing on more than 120 personal interviews
with addicted physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, attorneys,
and airline pilots and those who treat them, Robert Coombs gives us
a startling picture of drug abuse among "pedestal professionals."
He discusses addiction as an occupational hazard for those with the
easiest access to drugs, the greatest sense of immunity to their
perils, and the most extensive means (and reasons) for hiding their
problems. Throughout, the interviewees' eloquent and often
harrowing testimony reminds us of the human drama behind the
exhaustive research and analysis presented here. Their bittersweet
stories bear out Coombs's contention that recovering addicts, free
of their magical elixirs, can become more complete people than they
were before addiction. From the biological, psychosocial, and
spiritual roots of addiction to the equally diverse approaches to
recovery, to the merits and failures of government drug policy,
Drug-Impaired Professionals offers a clear and complete overview of
a complex problem that affects nearly every family in America.
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