Chemical Dependancy

Working in chemical dependency, or history of?

clarification: Any RN's here that work in CD?

I don't think so, but I could be wrong. I don't remember anyone saying they do.

was quite suprised there was no chemical dependancy forum. any cd rn's here?

if you mean a site for nurses in recovery, nurses-forum.com has an area. a few years ago, i asked allnurses to start a forum for nurses in recovery but they declined the idea. if you mean nurses who work in chemical dependency - yeah, we need that too.

I don't work in that area anymore but I used to. We call that area Alcohol and Drugs, not chemical dependency. I was a caseworker/counselor at Methadone Treatment Services with a client load of 60 IV drug addicts. Interesting work but very stressful and difficult at times.

I left after I failed to detect one of my clients was suicidal. He gassed himself in his mother's car and it wasn't until I went to the funeral that I realized he was a neighbor when I was growing up and his sister and I had been friends.

I came to the realization I had become hard and uncaring for not picking up his state of mind so I left that area altogether.

was quite suprised there was no chemical dependancy forum. any cd rn's here?

over here.

clean and sober for years now ....

but it wasn't always that way.

i hope your state has a nurse diversion program.

i completed a program and sing it's praises.

Isn't it part of the psych nursing forum?