Substance Use Disorder in Healthcare Professionals : When Caregivers Need Care and Treatment

This book develops on substance use disorder in healthcare workers, a topic not often discussed. While the phenomena is nothing new, the desire to learn about it is. This book describes why substance use disorder occurs in healthcare workers, explains how to recognize substance use disorder in peers and how to care for them. It discusses the barriers to seeking treatment, provides different monitoring programs and disciplinary actions, and educates on the recovery and how those with long term recovery maintain it. This book also intends to decrease stigmatizing behaviors. While the main focus is nursing, this book can be helpful to any healthcare professional group. Dr Carmel Clancy, President of the International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA), did us the honor of writing the Foreword. Foreword Preface Contents Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables 1: Healthcare Professionals and Substance Use Disorder 1.1 The Current State of Healthcare Professionals and Substance Use Disorder 1.2 A Brief Overview of the Current State of the Opioid Crisis in the USA 1.3 Stigma and Substance Use Disorder 1.3.1 Healthcare Professionals Experience Stigma Too References 2: Why and How Substance Use Disorder Occurs in Healthcare Professionals 2.1 Attributes in Healthcare Professionals Making Them More Vulnerable to Substance Use Disorder 2.2 Factors that Can Increase Risk of Substance Use Disorder in Healthcare Professionals 2.3 Description of Methods Healthcare Professionals Use to Divert Medications References 3: Overview of Substance Use in Healthcare Professionals 3.1 Recognizing, Intervening, and Training 3.2 What to Do if Substance Use Is Suspected 3.3 Where to Refer Someone with Substance Use Disorder 3.3.1 Peer Support 3.3.2 Coaching 3.3.3 Counseling and Therapy 3.3.4 Substance Use Disorder Programs 3.3.4.1 Detoxification and Inpatient Treatment 3.3.4.2 Residential Treatment 3.3.4.3 Intensive Outpatient Treatment 3.3.4.4 Telehealth References 4: Monitoring Programs, Disciplinary Action, and Alternative to Discipline Programs 4.1 Monitoring Programs and Disciplinary Actions for Healthcare Professionals with SUD 4.2 Key Elements of Alternative to Discipline Programs References 5: Barriers to Seeking Treatment and Reentry to the Workforce 5.1 Barriers to Seeking Treatment by Those Trying to Help, Including Family, Managers, and Others in Administration 5.2 Recommendations on How Those with SUD Can Return to the Workforce Safely References 6: Diversion Prevention 6.1 Elements of Effective Diversion Prevention Practices 6.2 Implementing a Successful Diversion Prevention Program References 7: Medication-Assisted Treatment 7.1 Common Medications Used in Medication-Assisted Treatment 7.1.1 MAT for AUD (See Table 7.2 for Detailed Information) 7.1.2 MAT for OUD (See Table 7.2 for Detailed Information) 7.1.3 Aspects of Successful Medication-Assisted Treatment Programs 7.1.3.1 Harm Reduction 7.1.3.2 Contingency Management References 8: What Recovery Looks Like 8.1 A Review of Recovery Programs for People with Substance Use Disorder 8.1.1 12-Step Meetings 8.1.2 Recovery Dharma 8.1.3 She Recovers Foundation 8.1.4 In the Rooms 8.1.5 Celebrate Recovery 8.1.6 Refuge Recovery 8.1.7 SMART Recovery 8.1.8 Women for Sobriety 8.1.9 Peer Support References