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Workforce
"You get what you pay for." This adage rings especially true in the business world. Low salaries generally attract mediocre talent. Cheap technology is often inefficient and can require costly repairs. And free employee assistance programs can incur high healthcare costs for employers.
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The New York Times
What if you did something that was in such violation of your moral compass that you felt unable to forgive yourself, undeserving of happiness, perhaps even unfit to live? That is the fate of an untold number of servicemen and women who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and other wars. For some veterans, this leaves emotional wounds that time refuses to heal. It has a name: moral injury. Unlike PTSD, moral injury is not yet a recognized psychiatric diagnosis, although the harm it inflicts is as bad if not worse.
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The Wall Street Journal
Scientists are making headway in the search for solutions to one of the most vexing problems in mental health: How to predict who is at risk for suicide.
Researchers are hunting for so-called biomarkers, such as patterns of brain activity on fMRI scans or levels of stress hormones in the blood, linked to suicidal thoughts and acts. They are creating computer algorithms, fed with tens of thousands of pieces of data, to come up with measures of risk. They are looking at sleep patterns and even responses to specialized computer tasks that can reveal unconscious biases toward self-harm.
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The Atlantic
There is a need to shift significantly the resources and change the structures that deal with mental illness and substance abuse. SAMHSA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, focuses the lion’s share of its resources on wellness and less serious mental-health issues – important to be sure, but to the detriment of the most serious problems, which also become the most draining for those who are ill, for their families, and for society as a whole.
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Daily Business Review
News reports of workplace violence understandably make responsible employers consider whether they are doing all they can to prevent similar incidents. This is especially true when the reports involve a mass shooting as was seen in San Bernardino, California, where 14 people were killed by a co-worker and his wife at a company holiday party.
While it may be impossible to completely prevent workplace shootings, employers would be wise to consider their current policies and practices and what they can do now to avoid a tragedy at their own company. (Requires free registration to download.)
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JSTOR Daily
America's workforce runs on amphetamines.
More specifically, it runs on Adderall, Vyvanse, Focalin, and Concerta, all commonly used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Over the past five years, reports of a growing amphetamine epidemic in the United States have surfaced in unlikely places: From gym rats to Hollywood actresses to fearful college kids and stressed writers, there's been no lack of exposés and personal interviews on the country's prescription amphetamine and methamphetamine users.
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Benefits Canada
The Mental Health Commission of Canada and HealthCareCAN are working together to explore how psychologically healthy healthcare workplaces are essential to patients' health.
The work is part of a three-year case study that follows how more than 40 healthcare organizations are implementing the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. The standard is a voluntary set of guidelines, tools and resources focused on promoting employees' psychological health and preventing psychological harm due to workplace factors.
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The New York Times
If you've come to rely on opioids for chronic pain, as a growing proportion of older adults has, you may have noticed that the drugs are becoming more difficult to get.
Something had to be done, surely: More than 165,000 people died from overdoses from 1999 to 2014.
But recent restrictions on access to these painkillers are likely to disproportionately affect the elderly — despite the fact that abuse and misuse of these painkillers have historically been lower among older patients than younger ones.
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PropertyCasualty360
While the Occupational Safety and Health Administration may cite employers for hazards associated with increased workplace violence risk, it surprisingly doesn't require employers to implement workplace violence prevention programs.
A recently released U.S. Government Accountability Office study on workplace violence in healthcare has recommended that OSHA "assist inspectors in developing citations, develop a policy for following up on hazard alert letters concerning workplace violence hazards in healthcare facilities, and assess its current efforts." (Requires free registration to download.)
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