The first-ever national study of drinking, drug use, depression and anxiety in the legal profession, published in February in the Journal of Addiction Medicine, showed that “grossly wanting” would be a charitable characterization of the current state of health and well-being among lawyers. “Awful” is the undissembled truth.
Perhaps most important, younger attorneys in the first 10 years of practice (and therefore those with the least mileage between them and the institutions that educated them) are experiencing the highest levels of problem drinking and mental health distress.
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