Addressing Substance Abuse Problems in the Workplace

摘要: One in four Americans has a substance abuse problem during his or her lifetime, with alcohol being the most common. Between 12 and 18 million need treatment for dependence (Brandeis University, 1993; Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA, 1999a). Alcohol use among adults been stable past decade 1999a), but annual cost to U.S. society lost productivity, healthcare, crime, accidents, workplace violence exceeds $165 billion year (Rouse, 1998). Among illicit drugs, marijuana cocaine are popular, of designer drugs heroin is rising, especially young adults. Due partly purer, more powerful emergency room episodes involving have risen over The estimated drug abuse, excluding alcohol, $110.4 Only 10% alcoholics 9% addicts receive any given (Grant, 1997). For its victims, costs human suffering incalculable.