Suicide and Drug Consumption - Legislative and Deontological Implications
Suicide and Drug Consumption - Legislative and Deontological Implications

Summary/Abstract: The drug consumers and addicts represent a section of the general population being in an obvious tendency of growth. Their contact and interrelations with medical professionals and the institutions of medical care delivery are subjected to complex, dilematic and sometimes contradictory aspects. The recognition and/or the statute of a patient for a drug consumer or addict implies to label with consequences that under certain circumstances and professional interrelations can be beneficial for the patient. The relationship physician – drug consumer/addict is subjected to peculiar regulations outside traditional medical practices. We cannot ignore the fact that the drug consumers and addicts only rarely got o check up with a physician out of his/her own will, conscious of the risk drug abuse jeopardizes one s health. Even in this situation, in the regular medical practice there appears a certain distinction between the medical activities carried out as a private practice and as a practice within public institutions. While in the former offices it is supposed that the subjects always come willingly in the former ones the patients are usually brought in by authorities. Aspects regarding the deontology of the care delivery for the above mentioned patients are dealt with in the specialized publications, handbooks from a general viewpoint at the level of declarations of principle. These aspects neglect the historical, social and cultural, organizing, financial and legislative peculiarities at a given time. It is not rare the situation when the specialized publications regarding drug consumption and the presence of addiction presented standpoints with a more or less dissimulated political underlayer – a fact that complicates the deonthological problems.

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