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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
Online registration is now open for EAPA's 2017 EAP Conference and EXPO! The conference will be held Oct. 3-6 (Pre-Conference Training Courses Oct. 3), at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, in Los Angeles. The hotel is located in close proximity to an endless number of attractions, restaurants, shopping, sporting venues and more. From Universal Studios, to the famed Farmers Market, from the Hollywood Bowl to Rodeo Drive. Bring your family or friends and plan to stay through the weekend after the conference! The 2017 conference program offers inspiring and informative keynote presentations, cutting-edge breakout presentations and unparalleled networking and recognition opportunities for EA professionals from 40 countries. Learn more.
Business Management Daily
Illicit drug use by American workers is climbing fast, leading to a 12-year high in positive workplace drug tests, according to a Quest Diagnostics review of 10 million test results logged in 2016.
Overall, 4.2 percent of urine tests were positive for drugs, the highest positivity rate since 2004.
"This year's findings are remarkable because they show increased rates of drug positivity for the most common illicit drugs across virtually all drug-test specimen types and in all testing populations," said Barry Sample of Quest Diagnostics.
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Forbes
The workplace can be difficult when you're struggling with addiction. Everyday stressors and the fear of stigma related to substance abuse issues often keep many silent about their struggle — without help or support. Today, more than 22 million people are reported to be facing addiction, making it inevitable that these individuals are also our colleagues, employees and leaders.
Enter Workit Health, a digital addiction treatment platform that helps people find recovery, giving them access to help anytime, anywhere.
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Quartz
The word “addiction” brings to mind alcohol and drugs. Yet, over the past 20 years, a new type of addiction has emerged: addiction to social media. It may not cause physical harms, such as those caused by tobacco and alcohol, but it has the potential to cause long-term damage to our emotions, behavior and relationships.
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Kaiser Health News
Location, location, location. That mantra may apply even when it comes to how opioid addiction is treated. Specifically, patients with private insurance who are diagnosed with opioid dependency or abuse may get different medical services depending on where they live, a white paper to be released in the upcoming week by a national databank indicates.
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FierceHealthcare
Workplace violence in healthcare setting is on the rise, and providers are encouraging staff to be more proactive about reporting incidents.
Aurora Health Care, for instance, established a systemwide steering committee that created a pilot call center and urged staff to report all incidents, according to an article from Hospitals & Health Networks. The system later eliminated the call center, but it now has a more robust collection of data on violence to build from.
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NPR
For years, people with addiction have wondered when the media would recognize our condition as a medical problem, not a moral one – when they would stop reducing us to mere "addicts" and speak of us in the more respectful and accurate "person first" language that has become common for people with other diseases and disorders.
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Employee Benefit News
Though there's a continued push for workplace wellness programs, employers still have some work to do to make sure employees are taking full advantage of such offerings.
New research shows that while employees say they are interested in wellness programs, factors such as underestimating available incentives and not spending a sufficient amount of time on wellness, are preventing both employers and employees from maximizing the benefits of such programs.
The good news, according to new research from UnitedHealthcare, is that most employees say they are interested in wellness programs.
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The Globe and Mail
How does my organization develop and implement a mental health strategy?
This is a common question among organizations of all sizes. They want to proceed, but they don’t know where — or how — to start.
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