Workplace Substance Abuse Impairment

Solutions to workplace substance abuse: prevention and treatment strategies.

Substance Abuse

The use and abuse of psychoactive substances are not unique to our country or century. People used hallucinogenic plants to achieve altered states of consciousness in prehistoric times, and psychoactive substances have been used in all eras and cultures. As Osler remarked, “The desire to take medicine is, perhaps, the great feature which distinguishes man from other animals.” The human cost of ...

Workplace drug abuse policy.

An estimated 70 percent of illicit drug users are in the workforce. This paper studies workplace policies relating to drug abuse treatment and testing in a labor market with asymmetric information about worker proclivities to abuse drugs and to incur costs of workplace accidents. Drug abuse has a moral hazard component related to worker choice of treatment or other deterrent activities, and a s...

Workplace Emotional Abuse

Just before leaving for the weekend, George answers a call on the help line and quickly realizes it’s from Mr. French, who’s always got a problem late in the day. His computer’s crashed again, he informs George, and this time he demands to talk to somebody competent! George has had his share of problems with Mr. French, the sales department manager. On several occasions in management meetings, ...

Substance Abuse in Aging Population

substance abuse' specially opiates and prescribed drugs are spreading among the older adults. Most of the time it begins as an attempt to medicate chronic pains, medical conditions and loneliness. In other instances, it simply is the continuation of a problem that begun in young adulthood. But scholars and specialists in both fields of Addiction and Gerontology, rather neglected this fast growi...