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Substance Abuse Among Healthcare Professionals

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Substance-related impairment of healthcare professionals places the patient, provider, and general public at risk for harm. Although the information contained in this chapter can apply to any number of healthcare providers, the focus of this particular chapter will be on substance abuse among physicians.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, 450 Broadway Street, Pav C, 4th Floor, Redwood City, CA, 9406, USA

    Natacha Telusca M.D., Kingsuk Ganguly M.D., Chrystina Jeter M.D. & Jordan L. Newmark M.D.

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  1. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Louisiana State University Interim Hospital, and Ochsner Kenner Hospital, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    Alan David Kaye

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Nalini Vadivelu

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Telusca, N., Ganguly, K., Jeter, C., Newmark, J.L. (2015). Substance Abuse Among Healthcare Professionals. In: Kaye, A., Vadivelu, N., Urman, R. (eds) Substance Abuse. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1951-2_37

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