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Substance Abuse in the
Workplace
By: Branden Curtis
Do You Know Anyone That You
Work With Dealing With
Substance Abuse?
Do You Know Anyone in Your
Family That Has Problems With
Substance Abuse?
The Reason Why I Chosen This?
• I wanted to get involved with business
• How I can learn from preventing this
Thesis
• Drug abuse continues to be a problem
in the workplace.
• Employers, the government, and the
addicts themselves should work
together to seek rehabilitation.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Rehabilitation
• Drug & alcohol rehab, addiction treatment,
drug rehabilitation programs, and centers in
the United States are working with people
or employees with any abuse
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
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.
• 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