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Substance Abuse in the Workplace
By: Branden Curtis
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Do You Know Anyone That You Work With Dealing With
Substance Abuse?
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Do You Know Anyone in Your Family That Has Problems With
Substance Abuse?
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The Reason Why I Chosen This?
• I wanted to get involved with business• How I can learn from preventing this
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Thesis
• Drug abuse continues to be a problem in the workplace.
• Employers, the government, and the addicts themselves should work together to seek rehabilitation.
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What’s Substance Abuse
• Also known as drug abuse• A pattern of harmful use of any substance for
mood-altering purposes • The use of illegal drug or abuse of
prescription drug for other purpose
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Background/ Statistics
• In U.S studies, one-third of workers are less active when they are at work than they are at work or outside of the workplace because of drug and/or alcohol abuse .
• Alcohol and drugs have cost U.S. Businesses way over $81 billion from to lack of participation.
• 21% of the employees have mention that their co-workers drug abuse had affected them.
Background/ Statistics
• In U.S studies, one-third of workers are less active when they are at work than they are at work or outside of the workplace because of drug and/or alcohol abuse .
• Alcohol and drugs have cost U.S. Businesses way over $81 billion from to lack of participation.
• 21% of the employees have mention that their co-workers drug abuse had affected them.
Background/ Statistics
• In U.S studies, one-third of workers are less active when they are at work than they are at work or outside of the workplace because of drug and/or alcohol abuse .
• Alcohol and drugs have cost U.S. Businesses way over $81 billion from to lack of participation.
• 21% of the employees have mention that their co-workers drug abuse had affected them.
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Survey
• 76% of the workers who have a serious problem with drugs and alcohol lied when they were filling of the applications
• 14% of the employees that did a survey, one had mention that they had to re-fix or do over the work because of the worker was drinking and was making to many mistakes
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Cont’
• 42% of the employee had said that they were too distracted and had less potential working because one of their family member’s was having problems with their addiction
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Random Drug Testing
• State of Ohio• U.S. studies shown that abusers are 33%
less active, when they can hurt others or them at work
• Drug testing had been required in workplaces on employers for safety reason
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Alcohol Abuse
• Drinking at work causes you to arrive to work late or leaving early
• Ames and colleagues had seen that the relationship of a hangovers at work and feeling sick at work, or sleeping on the job which can cause a problem doing a job task or employees
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Cont’
• The cause of drinking can be from being stress out or dull
• The efficiency lost from alcohol was about $119 billion in 1995
• Employees barely have the knowledge of the policies that seemed to support drinking
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Cons
• Drugs can affect the person’s life in many ways like in health, finances, and stability.
• Those who have misused alcohol changed employers a lot and 500 million to lose their jobs.
• Drug abusers at work produce drug dealers in the workplace.
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Pros
• Employers should have interventions for the employee .
• Workplace substance abuse prevention is to work with the companies that have a problem with drugs and alcohol for safety reasons, health issues, and the works performance.
• Free employment drug screening.
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Rehabilitation
• Drug & alcohol rehab, addiction treatment, drug rehabilitation programs, and centers in the United States are working with people or employees with any abuse
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Conclusion
• I have chosen this career because I am interested in business and I want to own my own restaurant
• I think that a person can be treated from abusing any substance that they are on
Conclusion
• I have chosen this career because I am interested in business and I want to own my own restaurant
• I think that a person can be treated from abusing any substance that they are on
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Cont’
• Most compelling research- too many people
lose their jobs because of drug abuse. • Most interesting idea- I’m surprised how
the government spends so much money on preventing substance abuse.
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• Satisfaction with the work- I was fascinated what I’d had found about substance abuse
• Future research - what can be prevented more to stop substance abuse
• Satisfaction with the work- I was fascinated what I’d had found about substance abuse
• Future research - what can be prevented more to stop substance abuse
• Satisfaction with the work- I was fascinated what I’d had found about substance abuse
• Future research - what can be prevented more to stop substance abuse