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Make Your Drug Free Workplace Recovery Friendly

A recovery friendly workplace (RFW) goes beyond the typical drug free workplace program and educates all workers from the top down on strengthening the workplace culture through evidence-based practices.

May 31, 2022

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Increase in Pandemic Substance Use Seen in Unfilled Jobs

Increased use of illicit substances, especially opioids and fentanyl, along with an increase in deaths from these drugs during the pandemic appears to account for a decline in workforce participation of between 7% - 19% out of an overall reduction of 9% - 26%.

May 5, 2022

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Importance of Random Drug Testing

The importance of random drug testing is growing as drug use is on the rise in the United States. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) identified that the number of past-year illicit drug users ages 26 and older over the last few years: 14.6% of the population in 2015; 15% of the population in 2016; 16.1% of the population in 2017; and 16.7% of the population in 2018.

April 18, 2022

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Record Level of Positive Workforce Drug Tests

Quest Diagnostics just released its 2022 Drug Testing Index (DTI) report of the analyzed results of more than 11 million workforce drug tests in 2021. The DTI provides context and trends of its drug testing data collection since 1988. The report disclosed that overall drug test positivity increased across 16 out...

April 6, 2022

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Increased Absenteeism from Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) Economically Impacts Workplaces

In a recent analysis of the responses from more than 110,000 fulltime employed adults over age 18 from the 2015 – 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, researchers determined that persons with alcohol use problems had a disproportionate number of absentee days. In fact, the more severe the alcohol disorder, the greater the prevalence of absentee days.

March 21, 2022

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Stigma of Substance Use Recovery in the Workplace

With 1 in 14 Americans reports experiencing a Substance Use Disorder (SUD), there is a serious impact to the workplace. Like many diseases, persons with SUDs can be successfully treated under a doctor’s care and their condition managed

March 1, 2022

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Make Your Drug Free Workplace Recovery Friendly

Increase in Pandemic Substance Use Seen in Unfilled Jobs

Importance of Random Drug Testing

Record Level of Positive Workforce Drug Tests

Increased Absenteeism from Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) Economically Impacts Workplaces

Stigma of Substance Use Recovery in the Workplace

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