Yet, all of these are typical responses to the person with chemical dependency. We all tend to fear, avoid, and sometimes even to despise that which we do not understand. The sight of an intoxicated person weaving erratically down the street or the addict lying disheveled in a stupor arouses responses of either revulsion and alarm or scorn and contempt in the majority of people. Seldom does such a spectacle generate compassion. It is still easy to find communities in the United States and in Georgia where the standard treatment for chemical dependency is jail.
Chemical dependency is a disease.
None of this is true, because chemical dependency meets the criteria for a disease. Frequent unscheduled short-term absences b. Higher absenteeism rate than other employees for colds, flu, gastritis, etc. Becoming or has become less dependable c. Frequently around medication cart or closet b. Discrepancies exist between time drug is signed out on control sheet and time documented on nurses notes or medication administration record or not charted in patient care record at all.