How doctors treat doctors with drug use problems: Addiction treatment that works

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Physician Health Programs (PHP) are reporting an astonishing success rate when it comes to solving the drug use, abuse, and addiction problems of doctors: Only about 20% of doctors ever test positive after being admitted to the program within a 5 year period. More than 70% maintain their license and continue working ...

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Drug abuse statistics: American drug abuse and addiction

Monday, July 13th, 2009

In looking up some numbers for a recent post I put up on TakePart, I uncovered some amazing addiction and drug abuse statistics (most from 2007, so they're probably higher by now). Addiction statistics highlights: Slightly more than half of Americans surveyed indicated that they are current drinkers (I thought it'd be ...

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