SUBSTANCE ABUSE & EATING DISORDERS

Recent research found that 20% of lawyers and judges reported problematic alcohol use, and attorneys in their first decade of practice experience the highest rates of problematic alcohol use. There are ways to help colleagues struggling with substance use or other disorders. 

SC Bar Services 

Lawyers Helping Lawyers  | A member benefit of the South Carolina Bar, this program is available to all lawyers, judges and law students experiencing challenges with substance use disorders, mental health illnesses and/or stress-related issues that affect their professional and personal lives.

• Contact the Lawyers Helping Lawyers team at 866-545-9590 for more information about services, or contact Beth Padgett or Robert Turnbull directly.
  
  Beth Padgett: (803) 240-6526 cell or (803) 576-3801 office
  J. Robert Turnbull, Jr.: (803) 603-3807 cell or (803) 576-3781 office

Articles from the SC Bar

• Low Risk, Binge or High-Intensity: What’s Your Drinking Style?

• Growth Mindset and Recovery

• Showing Up and Staying: How Lawyers Do AA

Articles from Other Bar Associations

State Bar of Texas: Substance Abuse in Law Schools: A Tool Kit for Law School Administrators

• State Bar of Texas: Substance Abuse and Ethics: The Judicial Duty to Respond

• Alabama Bar: Your Partner Needs Help

• Wisconsin Lawyer: Addiction and Attorneys: Confronting the Denial

• Michigan Bar: The Burden of Stigma: Barrier to Treatment, Bane of Recovery

• Alabama Bar: The Professional Cost of Untreated Addiction and Mental Illness in Practicing Lawyers

Eating Disorders

Below are some articles about eating disorders.

• Let’s Talk about Eating Disorders in the Legal Profession by Brian Cuban in Above the Law 

• Forbes: Eating Disorders and the Executive Women

• ABA Journal: Lawyer Speaks Out about Eating Disorders in Men