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Featured in The Highest Ranking Journal in Anaesthesia in the UK: British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA): Substance Abuse In Anaesthetists

Featured in The Highest Ranking Journal in Anaesthesia in the UK

Positive Sobriety Institute’s Daniel Angres, MD Contributed to and Featured in British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA)

According to the report, Approximately 10–14% of all doctors will become substance dependent over their lifetime; the incidence in anaesthetists being 2.7 times greater than other physician groups.1,2 Including alcohol, studies describe 0.86–2% of anaesthetic trainees and 1.3% of consultants being addicted; if alcohol is excluded, drug addiction occurs in 1.6% of trainees and 1% of non-training grades.1,3,4 Sixty-two per cent of residency programme directors in the USA reported at least one trainee with a substance abuse problem and a worrying progressive increase in incidence was noted, being highest over the 10 yr since 2003.

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