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• Title: Denial of AOD Use: An Issue for Social Workers and the Profession.
• Author : Health and Social Work
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 214 KB

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Many social workers practice in the field of addictions, yet little is known about their own alcohol and other drug (AOD) use or its negative professional consequences. Other disciplines, prompted by concern for their colleagues and protection of their clients, have studied the prevalence of AOD use among their practitioners (Hughes et al., 1992; Trinkoff, 1998) and have formulated policy and practice standards in response to the empirical evidence (American Nurses Association, 2001). Social work, however, has addressed the issue of impairment (defined as the negative professional consequences of AOD use for the purposes of this article) in a cursory fashion that is not evidence-based (Negreen, 1995). As far back as 1984, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Delegate Assembly discussed the issue of impairment in the profession, and in 1987 NASW issued its first policy statement on the issue, estimating that 10 percent of social workers were significantly impaired by drug addiction or alcoholism (NASW, 1984, 1987). This statement, reconfirmed in 1993, was not based on a population study. In 1996 various kinds of impairment were acknowledged in the reformulated NASW Code of Ethics, which mandates action when social workers are impaired or when they suspect impairment in colleagues (NASW, 2000a). The language, though, is nonspecific and no guidelines are suggested. Professional impairment is mentioned in an updated NASW policy statement (NASW, 2000b) that again calls for action, including research, to examine the scope of the problem.

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