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Impaired Professionals

NCJ Number
163486
Date Published
1996
Length
63 pages
Annotation
This bibliography contains 51 citations on drug and alcohol abuse by and impairment of professionals.
Abstract
Each citation identifies source document availability and contains an abstract of the document. Professionals covered by the bibliography include physicians, dentists, nurses, medical students, and police officers. Specific topics of the citations concern treatment and intervention, drug addiction research, media coverage of the issue of health professional impairment, effects of drug and alcohol abuse on job status, personality traits of drug-dependent professionals, relapse prevention, drug testing, and professional conduct and ethics.