Addicted Healers: Substance Misuse in Healthcare Professionals: 5 Key Signs Your Healthcare Professional May Be Drug Impaired - Softcover

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Updated for 2025, Addicted Healers: Substance Misuse in Healthcare Professionals includes new information on what has been done (and what has not been done) since Addicted Healers: 5 Key Signs Your Healthcare Professional May Be Drug Impaired was first published in 2012. Over the past 13 years the issue of impaired healthcare professionals continues to be a problem and media reports of patient harm and mortality caused by the nocuous healthcare practices professionals under the influence are becoming more and more commonplace. Despite federal measures to reform healthcare programs, many aspects, especially regarding issues of patient safety and protection, remain in quiet bedlam. You may blame legislative incapacity or a lack of quality patient care oversight, but “we are still in the awkward position of not knowing what we need to know,” according to Arthur Levin, president of the Center for Medical Consumers. Ethan O. Bryson, MD, author of ADDICTED HEALERS: Substance Misuse in Healthcare Professionals, reveals this gravely unaddressed problem in the healthcare industry. He strikes the silence by exploring and relating stories of addiction, drug-seeking behaviors and intervention efforts among healthcare professionals, from doctors and nurses to paramedics and laboratory technicians. Many patients today do not realize they are at risk of injury or fatal medical malpractice, because their physicians or clinicians could be judgment-impaired by substance misuse. In addition to revealing the signs and symptoms of drug use among healthcare professionals, Dr. Bryson gears up readers by showing how, when and where physicians and nurses gain easy access to a commonly-misused inventory of narcotic painkillers, tranquillizers and stimulants. Through true life cases he provides the inside stories, the affliction and the untold harm that can be caused by addicted healthcare workers, how common the problem is and why healthcare professionals become dependent on drugs. By the end of Dr. Bryson’s exposé, readers will know the signs and symptoms of an addicted healer and how to be prepared and proactive before any treatment or surgery goes awry. ADDICTED HEALERS might just save your life or a loved one’s life by equipping you with the knowledge of drug issues, flaws and risks that you need to know in choosing a safe practitioner of medical care.

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