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When the Addict is a Doctor – The Stigma of Opioid Addiction in Healthcare

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The trend against punitive measures runs into resistance when the addict could cause medical errors By Steven Ross Johnson Excerpt: The fear of harm at the hands of impaired clinicians has prompted calls for them to undergo mandatory drug testing. In 2014, voters in California—which abandoned its addiction assistance program for doctors after concluding it […]