In: Nursing
How do health care providers (not just physicians) access prescription drugs that are used to feed their addiction?
Medical professionals tempted to abuse substances due to easy access to effective prescription medications which are not properly accounted for. doctors and nurses and other health care professionals have more addiction than any other professionals. showing the way for the general population to avoid addiction to drugs and healthy lifestyle health care professionals use oipriod for dependence. HCP write prescription drugs like sleep medication, painkillers for themself. Due to high work stress, exposure to illness, trauma, death, work responsibility, lack of sleep make health care providers to use this drugs as maladaptive coping strategies. they are not using additive drugs for their psychological distress and stressful situation. to treat this issues it is recommended any health care professionals suffer from coping issues for treating their illness they have to contact their state's physician health program they make an intervention and provide service through various programs to treat them effectively.