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Vox
America has about 4 percent of the world's population — but about 27 percent of the world's drug overdose deaths.
That's one of the startling conclusions from a recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The U.S. has always been ahead of much of the world in drug overdose deaths — for a variety of reasons. For one, Americans are relatively wealthy, so they can afford to buy drugs.
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Human Resource Executive Online
Employees on international assignments or who relocate on their own are experiencing more bouts with depression or anxiety, according to new research.
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Benefits Canada
On one of the top floors of a non-descript building in downtown Toronto, Morneau Shepell Ltd.’s care access centre representatives are fielding intake calls, the first step in helping Canadian employees get help through their employee assistance program.
Visually, it's a typical call-centre environment, but the "magic happens on the phone," says Lynn Pike, vice-president of contact centres, intake and clinical services. The company has 2,500 counsellors at its six call centres across Canada. They're available day and night and can provide services in 146 languages while answering about 600,000 calls each year.
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News-Medical.Net
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, of all the opioid medication prescriptions that are distributed annually in the U.S., more than half are for patients diagnosed for mental illness such as depression and anxiety.
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drugs of Abuse guide is released on a periodic basis and designed to be a reliable resource on the most commonly abused and misused drugs in the United States. The guide provides important science-based information about the harms and consequences of drug use, describing a drug's effects on the body and mind, overdose potential, origin, legal status and other key factors. The 2017 edition updates the 2015 Drugs of Abuse publication with the most current information on new and emerging trends in drug misuse and abuse, including fentanyl, other opioids and synthetic drugs.
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Business Insurance
The momentum around wearable devices continues to build both in the general population where activity trackers have become nearly ubiquitous and within workplaces, where such devices promise to increase worker safety and reduce workers compensation claims.
But employers should put thought into how and why to deploy wearable devices if they hope to see a meaningful return on their investment, experts say.
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Harvard University
When unaddressed, alcohol and other drug use disorders in the workplace are costly and dangerous for organizations, as well as individuals. There are many good examples of successful programs and resources available that can help, and with over 22 million Americans currently in recovery from alcohol and other drug use disorders, creating a drug-free workplace is entirely possible.
More than 70 percent of individuals with alcohol or illicit drug use continue to maintain employment, as many employees with alcohol or other drug problems can continue to remain "functioning." Companies and organizations can no longer ignore the realities and repercussions of alcohol and other drugs in the workplace.
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Raconteur
Every organization in the U.K. is affected by mental ill health in the workforce. At any one time, one worker in six will be experiencing depression, anxiety or problems relating to stress. Some 91 million days are lost each year due to mental health problems.
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The Globe and Mail
Every week, half a million workers in Canada call in sick because of mental health problems.
This can run the gamut from anxiety and depression that workers carry with them from their lives outside work to conditions caused or worsened by the workplace.
Then there's the problem of "presenteeism." The opposite of absenteeism, it's when people show up for work but, because of mental health problems, are not fully engaged in the job at hand. This gets in the way of productivity.
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Benefits Canada
Following the implementation of a workplace wellness program, there are two groups of employees that require followup and support. My last column covered how to help wellness champions maintain success. But participants who haven't progressed also need extra attention. It’s not enough to be satisfied with a majority of participants improving. You should strive to help each individual achieve at least some success towards better mental, physical and financial health. To be clear, it's not your job as an employer to make your employees healthy. Rather, it's your job to provide opportunities for employees to make themselves healthy.
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