The white-coated drug addicts

By Jean Marbella

“It shouldn’t be surprising that white-coated professionals are no less immune to the lure of drugs or the disease of addiction than the rest of us – and, in fact, TV has made this quite the staple character, from Percocet-snorting Nurse Jackie to Vicodin-hallucinating Dr. House. And yet it’s hard to imagine how, in real life at least, an impaired medical professional can function in such exacting jobs.”

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