Law Practice
Aug. 2, 2014
More addicted lawyers seeking recovery?
Are more addicted lawyers seeking recovery? Statistics don't necessarily support that conclusion. But the need for recovery services is not declining. By Jerome I. Braun
"More Lawyers Ask Help for Alcohol, Drug Abuse" was a July 18 headline in the American Lawyer Daily. Since accurate statistics respecting addiction - whether alcohol or drugs - historically are, at best, imprecise, there is no way other than intuition to authenticate the headline. Indeed, the article states: "but record keeping ... is inconsistent at best." However, intuition seems to corroborate the claim. So is it true?
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