alth professionals impaired by substance abuse.
B. Experience has indicated that a rehabilitative orientation in dealing with health professionals impaired by substance abuse produces results superior to disciplinary actions that include loss of license.
C. Disciplinary approaches have been found to hinder identification, treatment, recovery, and reentry into the health professions.
D. While the availability and access to easily abused chemical substances may facilitate such abuse by health professionals, it is not availability and access that provide the primary motivation for such abuse.
E. The primary motivation for such abuse lies in the reaction of a health professional to such phenomena as burn-out and frustration associated with impingements on professional autonomy.
F. In turn, then, it is these factors that are the primary culprits in the development of substance abuse among health professionals.
G. One approach to the treatment of substance abuse is counseling in the workplace of the affected health professionals.
H. Another approach brings affected health professionals and their supervisors together to discuss problems associated with substance abuse.
I. The goals of such interventions are to identify and to defuse the emotional involvement of supervisors with their substance-abusing colleagues, to establish realistic objectives, and to ease reentry of the affected health professionals into the organization.
J. Another approach involves the families of substance-abusing health professionals in treatment programs.
K. In such interventions, the affected health professional confronts relevant problems with those other individuals relevant to the issue รน family members and professional colleagues.
L. Perhaps the most well known of the group psychotherapies for the treatment of substance abuse are the
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