Physicians' Use of Mood-Altering Drugs
- 12 February 1970
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 282 (7) , 365-370
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197002122820705
Abstract
A prospective study carried out over a 20-year period showed that a group of 45 physicians took more tranquilizers, sedatives and stimulants than 90 matched controls. As college sophomores both groups had been selected for the study because of better than average physical and psychologic health. The physicians drank alcoholic beverages and smoked cigarettes to the same extent as the controls.Keywords
This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Fate of the Mentally Ill PhysicianAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1969
- SUICIDE AMONG PHYSICIAN-PATIENTSJournal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 1968
- American Drinking Practices: Summary of Findings from a National Probability Sample. I. Extent of Drinking by Population SubgroupsQuarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1968
- Psychiatric Illness in the Medical ProfessionThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1967
- NARCOTIC ADDICTION AMONG PHYSICIANS: A TEN-YEAR FOLLOW-UPAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1966
- NARCOTICS ADDICTION IN PHYSICIANSAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1964
- PHYSICIANS AS PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS: PRIVATE PRACTICE EXPERIENCEAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1960