Psychoactive drug use among medical doctors is higher than in the general population

Gianfranco Domenighetti, Michele Tomamichel, Felix Gutzwiller, Silvio Berthoud and Antoine Casabianca

Social Science & Medicine, 1991, vol. 33, issue 3, 269-274

Abstract: We surveyed a representative sample of practising physicians and a representative sample of subjects from the Swiss general population (SOMIPOPS Survey) concerning their annual use of sleeping pills and tranquillizers. 77% of the physicians (n = 466) and 72% of the general population (n = 4255) responded. After adjustment for age and sex 37.1% of the doctors (general population 21.1% P

Keywords: psychoactive; drugs; tranquillizers; benzodiazepines; addiction; stress; coping; impaired; physician; medical; doctor; physician (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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