Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Work and Occupations
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by DABNEY, D. A.
Right arrow Articles by HOLLINGER, R. C.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

Illicit Prescription Drug Use among Pharmacists

Evidence of a Paradox of Familiarity

DEAN A. DABNEY

Georgia State University

RICHARD C. HOLLINGER

University of Florida

On average, pharmacists spend six years in college studying the intricacies of prescription medicines and their effects on the human body. Upon graduation, they embark on a career where their expertise and familiarity with the proper use and dangers of prescription drugs continuously grows. Despite this wealth of experience, some pharmacists become prescription drug abusers. The present analysis uses interview data obtained from 50 recovering drug dependent pharmacists to understand the process by which these professionals come to abuse the tools of their trade. Ironically, the data show several ways in which the individuals' knowledge and expertise may actually contribute to progressive prescription drug abuse. The authors argue that being and becoming a pharmacist presents a paradox of familiarity wherein technical knowledge and opportunity, in the absence of proper appreciation of the risks of substance abuse, can delude pharmacists into believing that they are immune to prescription drug abuse.

Work and Occupations, Vol. 26, No. 1, 77-106 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0730888499026001005
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Br J CriminolHome page
S. Karstedt and S. Farrall
The Moral Economy of Everyday Crime: Markets, Consumers and Citizens
Br. J. Criminol., November 1, 2006; 46(6): 1011 - 1036.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 The Prison JournalHome page
D. A. DABNEY and M. S. VAUGHN
Incompetent Jail and Prison Doctors
The Prison Journal, June 1, 2000; 80(2): 151 - 183.
[Abstract] [PDF]