When Doctors Battle Addiction In Themselves

 

What Happens When Doctors and Physicians Become Addicted to Drugs and Alcohol?

Where do doctors turn for help when they find themselves spinning out of control with the abuse of drugs and alcohol and subsequent addiction? There are specialized programs for recovery and addiction treatment that are aimed towards physicians and doctors especially; these programs are called Physician Health Programs (PHPs). 

PHPs were created to better help doctors and physicians not only treat their addictions and substance abuse problems, but more to help them realize and admit that they have a problem. In the past, many doctors struggling with substance abuse and addiction kept the problem hidden from everyone else, or couldn't bring themselves to admit that they had a problem; this is mostly due to fear of stigmatization, loss of employment, loss of patients and clients, and humility. State PHP programs help these doctors to actualize the problem, admit that it is a problem, allows them to seek recovery and treatment, and to seek recovery under strict confidentiality.

Due to the confidentiality of these PHPs many doctors struggling with abuse and addiction are more prone to come clean about their addictions and actually seek help for the problem -- instead of hiding their problem or trying to address it without the help of other professionals. These programs and their confidentiality are helping to not only save the lives of the doctors struggling with drug and alcohol abuse and addiction, but also the lives of their patients -- who are at increased risk of harm or death from mistakes made in their own healthcare.

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