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Workforce
The costs associated with mental health treatment have skyrocketed.
Some 7.6 percent of America's full-time workforce is estimated to have major depressive disorder, and its economic costs nationally were about $210 billion annually in 2015, up from $173.3 billion annually in 2005, according to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
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P&T Community
Workplace depression is a major issue across different cultures and economies, with "wide and devastating" consequences for thousands of organizations worldwide, according to data from researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
In a study of eight countries spanning diverse cultures and gross domestic product, the researchers found that depression is collectively costing the nations of Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States more than $246 billion a year (in U.S. dollars). This is the first study of its kind in the world to analyze the impact of depression on workplace productivity across a range of countries that differ both culturally and economically.
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Waters Edge Recovery, a Joint Commission accredited, dual-diagnosis drug and alcohol treatment center located on the banks of the St. Lucie River in Stuart Florida. The facility’s waterfront location helps create a calm and restorative environment for reflection and recovery. Specializing in continuous communication, family support and complete EAP resources.
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WATE-TV
Officer Farmer has a long career in law enforcement and trains East Tennessee groups on what to do in situations of workplace violence or active-shooters.
"Something like this can happen anywhere that you work, that you worship, that you shop. I mean nowhere is truly safe from this type of thing," he said.
Officer Farmer says being prepared could mean the difference between life or death. He says while violence like what happened at the Thomas and Betts' Athens plant is rare, there are three strategies to survive.
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Human Resource Executive Online
Social media tools provide businesses ways to build stronger relationships with customers, prospective employees and investors. But there's a dark side: Employees using their own accounts can do real damage. In response, many employers are drafting social-media policies to protect their brands.
Increasingly, however, they're finding such policies violate labor laws.
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Angus Leader
Recently, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Happy Jack's Casino for rescinding its offer of employment from a woman because she tested positive for legally-prescribed painkillers.
That the EEOC chose to file a lawsuit is telling: The agency normally doesn't pursue cases on behalf of someone who makes a complaint. The case against Happy Jack's owner M.G. Oil is only the third filed in federal court in South Dakota since 2011. Under the Americans With Disabilities Act, employers can't refuse to hire a person with a disability — in this case, chronic back and neck issues — simply because they take medication for that disability that other people use recreationally.
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Lab Manager
Overconsumption of alcohol can lead to errors in judgment, causing, for example, some people to get behind the wheel when they are impaired. To help imbibers easily and quickly know when they’ve had enough, scientists have developed a flexible, wearable patch that can detect a person’s blood-alcohol level from his or her sweat. The monitor, reported in the journal ACS Sensors, works quickly and can send results wirelessly to a smartphone or other device.
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Human Resource Executive Online
The Securities and Exchange Commission's recent ruling on severance agreements is the latest in a series of positions taken by federal agencies that depend on current and former employees reporting violations of law.
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The Telegraph
A new book, "Unsubscribe: How To Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distraction and Get Real Work Done," claims email addiction is a time-wasting epidemic in the modern workplace and aims to help those who feel overwhelmed by their inbox, and waste hours each day trying to get on top of it. Several recent studies bear out this theory, with one finding the average worker checks their email 77 times a day, sends and receives over 100 and checks their first one within minutes of waking up.
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Psych Central
A new imaging study finds that many mental disorders have similar abnormalities in the brain's white matter.
Researchers from University of Illinois at Chicago used MRI imaging to study disorders such as depression and social anxiety disorders. The study stems from the recognition that similar treatments help multiple disorders and that almost all emotional disorders involve persistent negative thinking.
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