Abstract

OTERO DORREGO, C.; HUERTA CAMARERO, C.  and  DURO PERALES, N.. Drogodependencias en personal sanitario, una visión desde la medicina del trabajo (I): aspectos jurídico-legales y epidemiológicos. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2008, vol.54, n.211, pp.15-23. ISSN 1989-7790.

The problems of drug addiction in health personnel pose a great challenge to the professional responsibility of the medical officer, who has to deal with the rehabilitation work (and staff) health professional drug addicts, preventing cause harm to patients in the exercise of their profession, a difficult balance to achieve. The aim is to develop a useful procedure for action, which would review all the legal issues that may be affected during the handling of drug addicts (legal, responsibilities, rights and duties), health policies and programmes to assist current and data epidemiological (prevalence of relapses into drug addiction and health personnel).

Keywords : Medical labour; professional liability; substance abuse in health personnel; legal matters; procedure.

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