I recently attended a seminar about the prevelance of drug and alcohol abuse among nurses.
the speaker (a recovering alcholic drug abusing nurse manager, currently clean and sober psych case manager) indicated something like 35% of all nurses are chemically dependent, he believes the phenominally high rate of nurse abusers is related to the fact that everyone who chooses nursing is codependent, he went on to say something like 90+% of nurses have an immediate family member who is chemically dependent (doesnt most the population) that contributed to our codependency and our eventual chemical addiction.
What do you think? what is your definition of codependency? what do you think about being labeled as codependent? why did you choose nursing - was it to help people and be appreciated? do you think all healthcare workers are codependent? what is your definition of an alcoholic? what is your definition of a drug abuser? how much faith do you have in his statistics on chemically dependent nurses?