It's easy to name all the professionals we wouldn't want nursing a drug problem.

We'd like our airline pilot not to amble giddily toward the cockpit, his mind on the pleasure palaces of Kubla Khan. We value the surgeon whose war experience with morphine makes him extra sensitive to side effects, but somehow prefer his drug-free judgment when he has scalpel in hand. We fear that the lawyer who shows up with one toke too many will metamorphosize into Al Pacino in ... And Justice for All, suddenly frothing at the mouth and ranting that it's his client who's a dirty, rotten, guilty son of a bitch.

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