A study recently published in the journal Addiction, looked at the risk of substance abuse and its associated premature death in health professionals. 404 drug-caused deaths reported to a coroner between 2003 and 2013 from this cohort were examined. The researchers found that the most common drug-caused deaths involving health professionals at this time were females in their mid-40s with a diagnosis of mental illness.
Pilgrim, J. L., Dorward, R., and Drummer, O. H. (2016) Drug-caused deaths in Australian medical practitioners and health-care professionals. Addiction, doi: 10.1111/add.13619. (Access is available via CIAP for NSW Health staff)
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