Addiction Treatment for Healthcare Professionals

Addiction Treatment for Healthcare Professionals – One in ten healthcare professionals struggle with addiction but few get help. Hazelden’s Health Care Professionals Program is designed specifically to help doctors, nurses, dentists, anesthesiologists and other medical professionals recover from alcohol and drug addiction to regain their lives. Teams of experienced medical and clinical professionals develop treatment plans based on the unique recovery needs of each patient in a gender-specific treatment environment. Former Hazelden Medical Director, Dr. Omar Manejwala, is a leading expert in addiction medicine and explains the pressure situations medical professionals experience. For more information about Hazelden’s Health Care Professionals Program, please visit www.hazelden.org or call 800-257-7810.

Better treatment: Pa. doctors need an electronic database for drugs

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That means when patients show up in emergency rooms complaining of severe pain, treating physicians can't determine what drugs and how much of them patients have purchased in the past. That lack of information can lead to overprescribing to someone …
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Manchin: Reconnecting McDowell is making progress

Filed under: drug abuse treatment plan

The county also leads the U.S. for fatal prescription painkiller overdoses. The plan hopes to tackle high teen pregnancy and dropout rates, behavioral health and substance abuse, poor nutrition and the lack of physical activity. A community health …
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