Substance Abuse Among Health Care Professionals

This blog was established to create a supportive environment for medical professionals to talk anonymously about their experiences with substance abuse, allow the opportunity for people to share their opinions on the topic and to raise awareness of this issue. Browse through the blog, look at the interviews with actual medical professionals and learn why it is so important for our society address this problem and for a healthcare professional to help a colleague or seek treatment for himself.

Substance Abuse Within the Emergency Department

ER Nurses are 3.5 times as likely to use substances as general practice or pediatric nurses (Storr, & Trinkoff, 1998).

In your experience, have you found this to be true?

Take a look this video to see how Audrey E. Snyder, PhD, RN, ACNP-CS, FAANP, CMT answered this question: VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDFr0CSbVo8

Resource: Storr, CL, & Trinkoff, AM. (1998). Substance use among nurses: differences between specialties. American Journal of Public Health, 88(4), Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1508454/