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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
What do "Emory after Ebola: lessons learned by the EAP," "Sustaining and retaining the home care workforce: an innovative EAP model" and "Weight in the workplace: why wellness at work programs aren't working" have in common? They were all rated in the top 10 conference sessions by attendees of the 2015 World EAP Conference. But even if you weren't lucky enough to attend the conference in person, you can still watch these sessions, (and all the others), online, by visiting EAPA's Conference On Demand.
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The Huffington Post
Employee mental health is an issue that impacts the ultimate success of every business on the planet. If you're a business leader and your employees' emotional well-being wasn't already on the top of your list of priorities for 2016, it needs to be.
The results of a recent analysis of three years' worth of global Employee Assistance Program data paint the picture pretty clearly — employees are seeking help for more significant and more severe emotional health issues than ever before.
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The New York Times
Three shaky months into recovery from heroin addiction, Dariya Pankova found something to ease her withdrawal. A local nonalcoholic bar sold a brewed beverage that soothed her brain and body much as narcotics had. A perfect solution — before it backfired. Ms. Pankova grew addicted to the beverage itself. She drank more and more, awakened her cravings for the stronger high of heroin, and relapsed. Only during another stay in rehab did Ms. Pankova learn that the drink’s primary ingredient, a Southeast Asian leaf called kratom, affects the brain like an opiate and can be addictive, too.
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Medical Daily
Marijuana has gone from a substance used exclusively by those associated with the counterculture to a somewhat mainstream drug. It’s been medicalized, legalized, and decriminalized in many places across the U.S., and most of the associated research has focused on how various legalization policies impact access to and use of the drug. But gauging the effect of a formerly illicit drug is no easy task, as highlighted by a new study out of the University of Washington, which sought to know how legalization affects the use of alcohol — America’s favorite drug.
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The Huffington Post
One somewhat unfortunate reality of living in the United States is that health care is inexorably tied up with employment, for better or for worse.
On the plus side, employers generally provide health insurance at a subsidized rate and may have other programs to encourage better physical health in the workplace.
But there's more to health than physical well-being, and companies often fall short on the mental health front.
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The New York Times
The crisis of painkiller addiction is becoming increasingly personal: 16 percent of Americans know someone who has died from a prescription painkiller overdose, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey; 9 percent have seen a family member or close friend die. Addictive opioid painkillers were once reserved for extreme situations like terminal cancer. But opioids like Vicodin and OxyContin are now widely prescribed for common conditions like arthritis and lower back pain.
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HealthDay News via The Times
The wage gap between American women and men might be one reason why women have higher rates of depression and anxiety, a new study suggests.
Women with lower incomes than men with similar levels of education and experience were about 2.5 times more likely to have major depression than men. But, women who had incomes similar to their male counterparts didn't have a greater risk of depression than men, the research revealed
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Bloomberg Business
Some of America's future lawyers are hiding drug, alcohol and depression problems instead of seeking help, a new report shows. Law students with addiction and mental health issues may be afraid to report the problems because they think that doing so would jeopardize their chances of being admitted to the bar or getting a good job after graduating, according to the study, which was conducted by a law professor, a dean of law students and the programming director of a nonprofit focused on lawyers' mental health.
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The New York Times
Recently, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reviewed all of the literature on depression and depressive symptoms in resident physicians — those are doctors still being trained. They found more than 50 studies on the subject. Research shows that almost 30 percent of resident physicians have either symptoms or a diagnosis of depression.
The numbers, and how they compare with other professions, are almost beside the point. Physicians are in a position of needing to care for others continuously.
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