# 110

Two Drug Counselors Overdose on opioids/heroin at live-in recovery home in Pennsylvania.  Substance deliberately injected by each in separate rooms.

This post harkens back to Post # 11 Ethical Questions

"One doesn't have to dig very deeply to discover the debate with continues in treatment circles regarding a non-Physician counselor who purports to be secure in his position as counselor while maintain an accurate awareness that he too is/was an addict.

What Happens When Addiction Counselors Relapse? By Jeff Forester 08/30/11

https://www.thefix.com/content/when-counselor-does-coke4050?page=all

        

Relapse plays a familiar part in the lives of many recovering addicts. And even longtime drug counselors are not immune from the occasional slip."

In the above post and elsewhere in this blog, the question has been asked how certain "diseases" are defined by the AMA, however, they are rarely treated by physicians.  In large part, substances which people abuse such as alcohol and opioids produce a unique handoff by which treatment for their addictive disease is largely administered by recovering addicts having masters degrees.  In the reported case in Blog # 110, two recovering addictive counselors cross the line as they made fatal decisions.  While the Medical Profession is aware of Physicians who become addicted to substances, they are less likely to overdose than a class of counselors who almost entirely is made up of substance abusers.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/24/us/drug-counselors-overdose/index.htmlTwo Drug Counselors