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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
EAPA's Research Panel has announced the release of a major public policy "white paper" calling for a new framework to support the development and evaluation of evidence-based EAP innovations. Called "Bridging Public Health with Workplace Behavioral Health Services," the white paper is a call to action, encouraging collaboration among five stakeholder groups: work organizations, EA professionals, researchers, educators of EA professionals, and funding agencies. The white paper, jointly sponsored by EAPA, EASNA, and the EA Research Foundation, will be presented and discussed at EAPA’s Research Panel meeting at the World EAP Conference in San Diego on Sept. 30. All interested conference registrants are invited to attend.
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Employee Benefit News
Benefits professionals know that behavioral health has long been eclipsed by physical ailments within the larger context of health plan management, even with mental health parity laws. That's largely because there are more tangible treatment options for colds, flus, accidents and diseases, which represent low-hanging fruit for cost management.
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The Boston Globe
Thanks to a $30 million funding deal, meditation app "Headspace" could soon join the ranks of innovative workplace wellness perks some companies offer employees.
Headspace, described on its website as "a gym membership for the mind," plans to release an enterprise product next year for businesses that want to provide mindfulness training for employees, CEO Sean Brecker told The Huffington Post.
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We are a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility that specialize in personalized care for our patients. We are a medically supervised holistic drug rehab center that recognizes the requirement for an alternative approach to drug rehabilitation. We combine holistic and alternative methods with the 12-step program to ensure the best possible results.
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Psych Central
Adolescent abuse of narcotic painkillers is higher in rural areas and small cities than that found in large urban area. Researchers found that adolescents — youths between 12 and 17 — in rural communities are 35 percent more likely to have abused prescription painkillers in the past year than adolescents living in large cities. Similarly, adolescents who live in small cities have a 21 percent greater likelihood of abusing prescription painkillers than their large urban counterparts.
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Workplace Savings & Benefits
Owain Thomas discusses new evidence showing the seriousness of workplace stress and why the time to tackle the issue is now.
Stress is the second-most frequently reported work-related health problem in Europe and, along with other psychosocial risks, is thought to account for more than half of all lost working days. And mental illness is the leading cause of sickness absence in the U.K., accounting for 70 million sick days in 2013, up 24 percent since 2009.
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U.S. News & World Report
Would you rather feel ho-hum or completely overloaded in the office? While neither state is ideal, boredom and stress create different types of problems for employees.
Boredom at work isn't just boring for sufferers — it also leads to larger issues at work that affect entire teams and companies. Studies have shown that feeling bored can lead to disengagement, sabotage, withdrawal, abuse of other team members and intentional failure — all of which can result in decreased productivity. Chronic workplace stress can lead to serious physical and emotional health problems, including heart disease and depression.
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The Economist
Even street-savvy former gang members are shocked by the spread of heroin to Chicago’s suburbs. Earlier this year, when Roberto Hernández, a Puerto Rican, was in the final stages of preparation of a big push by Gangs to Grace, a church ministry on the west side, to save Latino gang members from lives of violent crime, he explained that white girls from the suburbs go to neighborhoods even he wouldn’t set foot in to buy heroin. Many of them are as young as 14 or 15. Some prostitute themselves to fund their addiction.
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Introventions provides 21st Century Solutions for a 21st Century Workforce. Working with 3rd Millennium Classrooms and the San Diego State University Research Foundation, we bring more than a decade of experience in developing ecidence-based online alcohol and drug prevention/intervention programs. Designed for the workplace. Scalable for a workforce of any size.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Many U.S. workers are increasingly delaying retirement from work, which may be leading to an increase in chronic disease at the workplace. We examined the association of older adults' health status with their employment/occupation and other characteristics.
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By Dorothy L. Tengler
 Although childhood shyness is commonplace, it concerns many parents, especially those who place great value on sociability. Some children become shy because of harsh life experiences, but most are born that way. In some cases, shyness can be disabling. Extremely shy children often do not adapt as well as most of their peers in the classroom and on the playground. A recent study, however, has uncovered a deeper possible explanation for such shyness.
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Mining Weekly
Drug and alcohol abuse among mine workers is an ongoing battle, as drugs are often used as a coping mechanism to deal with stress, unhappiness or the pressures of daily life, drug and alcohol testing distributor ALCO-Safe director Rhys Evans tells Mining Weekly.
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