Fifteen percent or more of health care professionals are presently, or at risk of becoming, chemically dependent during their professional careers. Professional impairment is not apparent usually until the terminal stages of the disease. Alcoholism is a disease that tells us we don't have a disease. We pay good money to get it and the salient symptom is denial.
Chemical dependency is the universal solvent.
Early identification and intervention produces a greater percentage of recovery. In-patient treatment produces a greater percentage of recovery. After care - the most important ingredient for recovering success. Alcohol is the drug of choice of the majority of people who use or misuse drugs. M.D.S., B.O.R.I.D., or any governing body is not privy to CDAD membership or activities.