A standing joke in 12 step programs where experience with drugs and alcohol and those who use them is highest is: an alcoholic will steal your wallet but a cocaine addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
So I did a google search on impaired psychologists and found that there were articles, though few, and far less surveillance than doctors, nurses, or lawyers yet the problem is clearly increasing and the risks are far greater in future than in past where psychologists were more supervised than today.
Unfortunately all the references I found were not free to the public. In all cases I had to pay to access the material though I can find the incidence of addiction in lawyers per se without such an economic barrier. That alone concerns me. Hopefully concerned psychologists will address this issue.
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Psychologist heal thyself: What is available for the impaired ...
psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/40/1/84.htmlby DA Laliotis - 1985 - Cited by 85 - Related articles
A thorough search of the literature yielded little information on incidence of impairment in psychology. Thoreson et al. (1983) offered a conservative estimate of ...
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