Citation

Pires M. Nurs. Clin. North Am. 1989; 24(1): 291-296.

Affiliation

New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center, University Hospital, Boston University Medical Center, Massachusetts.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2522195

Abstract

Clearly, substance abuse among traumatically disabled persons can potentially sabotage rehabilitation outcomes for this population. There is evidence that substance abusers will comprise a growing percentage of patients within rehabilitation programs. Rehabilitation professionals must examine their own attitudinal barriers toward making a substance-abuse program an integral part of comprehensive rehabilitation care. Rehabilitation nurses are in a unique position to assist the rehabilitation team to identify the need for development of a substance-abuse program.

Language: en