"One of the first things I learned is that there is little research on lawyers and drug abuse." Or really any other profession. I work in politics, in DC, and

"One of the first things I learned is that there is little research on lawyers and drug abuse." Or really any other profession. I work in politics, in DC, and drug abuse is rampant. Absolutely horrible. I've found people snorting pills in the bathroom, steps away from the offices of members of congress. Adderall, cocaine, Xanax, and a myriad of painkillers is the norm. Having to shake a colleague awake and pour coffee into him because he was so jazzed on adderall all of the previous day, that he had to drink himself into a drunken stupor just to fall asleep. Now it's 8am and he needed to be at a committee hearing in two hours. It's under reported and invisible. I think highly stressful jobs bring out a "solutions" mentality. Drugs help. With sleep, with productivity, with being on the ball....until they don't....