Nurses' use of alcohol and other drugs: Findings from a national probability sample

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1423-1440

  Hughes, Tonda L ^a   Howard, Marion J ^a   Henry, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug use; Nurses; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; NURSES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036386140     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JA-120014085     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Plant, M.L.; Plant, M.A.; Foster, J. Alcohol, Tobacco and Illicit Drug Use Amongst Nurses: A Scottish Study. Drug Alcohol Depend. 1991, 28, 195-202.
2. Trinkoff, A.; Storr, C.L.; Wall, M.P. Prescription-Type Drug Misuse and Workplace Access Among Nurses. J. Addict. Dis. 1999, 18 (1), 9-17.
3. Valentine, N. Stress, Alcohol, and Psychoactive Drug Use Among Nurses in Massachusetts; Doctoral dissertation, Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare and the Graduate Faculty of Brandeis University: Waltham, MA, 1991.
4. Winick, C. Drug Dependence Among Nurses. In Sociological Factors in Drug Dependence; Winick, C., Ed.; CRC Press: Cleveland, 1974.
5. Haack, M.R.; Hughes, T.L. Addiction in the Nursing Profession; Springer: New York, 1989.
6. Sullivan, E.; Bissell, L.; Williams, E. Chemical Dependency in Nursing; Addison-Wesley: Menlo Park, CA, 1988.
7. Trinkoff, A.; Storr, C.L. Substance Use Among Nurses. Differences Between Specialties. Am. J. Public Health 1998, 88 (4), 581-585.
8. American Nurses' Association. Impaired Nursing Practice (Media Backgrounder). ANA News, March 1987.
9. Bissell, L.; Haberman, P.W. Alcoholism in the Professions; Oxford University Press: New York, 1984.
10. Garb, S. Narcotic Addiction in Nurses and Doctors. Nurs. Outlook 1965, 13, 30-34.
11. Trinkoff, A.; Eaton, W.W.; Anthony, J.C. The Prevalence of Substance Abuse Among Registered Nurses. Nurs. Res. 1991, 40 (3), 172-175.
12. Blazer, L.K.; Mansfield, P.K. A Comparison of Substance Use Rates Among Female Nurses, Clerical Workers and Blue-Collar Workers. J. Adv. Nurs. 1995, 21 (2), 305-313.
13. Collins, R.L.; Gollnisch, G.; Morsheimer, E.T. Work Stress, Coping, and Substance Use Among Female Nurses. In Drug Addiction Research and the Health of Women; Wetherington, C.L., Roman, A.B., Eds.; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Drug Abuse: Rockville, MD, 1998; 319-337.
14. Bell, D.M.; McDonough, J.P.; Ellison, J.S.; Fitzhugh, E.C. Controlled Drug Misuse By Certified Registered Nurse Anesthestists. AANA J. 1999, 67, 133-140.
15. Center for Human Resource Research. NLSY Users' Guide: A Guide to the 1979-1996 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Data; The Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University: Columbus OH, 1997.
16. Lemeshow, S.; Hosmer, D.W. Jr.; Klar, J.; Lwanga, S.K. Adequacy of Sample Size in Health Studies; Wiley: New York, 1990.
17. Kandel, D.B.; Warner, L.A.; Kessler, D. The Epidemiology of Substance Use and Dependence Among Women. In Drug Addiction Research and the Health of Women; Weatherington, C.L., Roman, A., Eds.; NIH publication no. 98-4290; NIDA: Rockville, MD, 1998; 105-130.
18. Fillmore, K.M.; Golding, J.M.; Leino, E.V.; Motoyoshi, M.; Shoemaker, C.; Terry, H.; Ager, C.R.; Ferrer, H.P. In Gender and Alcohol; Wilsnack, R.W., Wilsnack, S.C., Eds.; Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies: New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1997;21-48.
19. Hughes, T.L.; Day, L.E.; Marcantonio, R.; Torpy, E. Gender Differences in Patterns of Alcohol and Other Drug Use. Substance Use Misuse 1997, 32 (3), 317-342.
20. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 10th Special Report to the US Congress on Alcohol and Health; USDHHS: Washington, DC, 2000; 28-53.
21. Hughes, T.L. Chief Nurse Executives' Responses to Chemically Dependent Nurses. Nurs. Manage. 1995, 26, 37-40.
22. Hughes, T.L.; Smith, L.L. Is Your Colleague Chemically Dependent? Am. J. Nurs. 1994, 94, 31-35.
23. Von Burg, L.; Forman, M.A. Substance Abuse Among Nurses at Teaching Hospitals. Nurs. Manage. 1992, 23, 68-70.
24. Hughes, T.L.; Smith, L.L.; Howard, M.J. Florida's Intervention Project for Nurses: A Description of Recovering Nurses' Reentry to Practice. J. Addict. Nurs. 1998, 10, 63-69.
25. Naegle, M. Drug and Alcohol Use in Nursing. An Occupational Hazard? Nurs. Life 1988, January/February, 42-54.