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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
EAPA CEO Dr. John Maynard told attendees at EAPA's 2015 World EAP Conference in San Diego that EAPA ended its most recent fiscal year with a positive net margin of $57,000, bringing its total reserves (net assets) up to over $950,000. The full independent auditor's report detailing EAPA's current financial status is available to EAPA members on EAPA's website. According to Maynard, "We've been able to achieve these results while, at the same time, improving our infrastructure and our member services, including launching a totally new website that's more intuitive and easier to navigate than our former one, and is also fully integrated with a new, state-of-the-art database system so members can make real-time changes to their own membership profile and manage other interactions with EAPA, including certification and continuing education." See more details about developments at EAPA in his 2015 CEO Report.
Modern Healthcare
As hospitals expand their ranks of employed physicians, they will likely find themselves more frequently confronted with an issue that has always plagued the medical profession: practicing physicians with substance abuse and mental health problems. Medical pioneers such as Dr. William Stewart Halsted, the father of American surgery, and Dr. Sigmund Freud, who developed psychoanalysis, wrestled with cocaine addiction.
While estimates vary, about 15% of physicians will be impaired at some point in their careers because of psychiatric illness, alcoholism or drug dependency, according to a 2001 article in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences.
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The Globe and Mail
A study of the results of EAPs, in both small and medium-sized businesses found "evidence that performance, based on self-appraisal, improves significantly" among employees who access those programs. What's more, their employers made an average net gain of $526 an employee against the average $294 they were losing to absenteeism and low productivity.
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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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GovernmentExecutive
The Defense Department has not issued workplace safety protocols that apply to its entire workforce, according to a new report, leaving employees still vulnerable to violence despite multiple reviews to address the issue in light of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.
After that shooting by an Army psychiatrist that left 13 dead and an additional 43 wounded at the Texas base, the Pentagon commissioned a review board to better protect its workforce. That panel issued 79 recommendations in 2010, which were followed by a Defense Science Board review of how to predict violent behavior and an additional directive from the department's secretary.
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MedlinePlus
A new government report calls for the practice of "conversion therapy" to be eliminated nationwide. "No evidence supports the efficacy of such interventions to change sexual orientation or gender identity, and such interventions are potentially harmful," said the authors of the report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. "Efforts should be taken to end the practice of conversion therapy," the report added.
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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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Medical Xpress
During the decade from 2004 to 2013, use of treatment remained low for individuals with opioid use disorders, according to a study in the Oct. 13 issue of JAMA. During the last decade, nonmedical use of opioid analgesics and heroin increased substantially in the United States. In the early 2000s, less than one-sixth of individuals with opioid use disorders received any treatment, and use of office-based treatment was rare.
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Good Therapy
A computer model can successfully identify the United States Army soldiers who engaged in the most acts of workplace violence over a six-year period, according to a study published in Psychological Medicine. Researchers found that 5 percent of soldiers committed more than a third of all violent crimes.
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Alternet
While our current political conversations often involve concerned discussions about marijuana's imagined dangers or potential benefits (the most recent Republican and Democratic debates both dedicated time to the question of pot legalization), our most problematic relationship actually seems to be with alcohol. America, it seems, has a drinking problem — and studies indicate it is only getting worse. There are real reasons, in addition to the pressing issue of mass incarceration and the failure of the drug war, for us to start thinking seriously about the cost of our increasing reliance on alcohol when we consider the ravages of drug use.
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The Telegraph
Ask anyone to name the most stressful professions and they might guess neurosurgeon, bomb diffuser, miner or even stockbroker.
But a new study suggests that it is menial, thankless jobs that leave people suffering the most stress, and are consequently the most damaging to health.
Chinese scientists have found that low paid jobs with a high work-load, such as waitressing, leave employees at far greater risk from heart problems and 58 per cent more likely to suffer an ischemic stroke — the most common type of stroke which is caused by a blockage of blood flow.
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The Huffington Post
Legal Momentum is calling on all employers, no matter how large or small, to adopt the "This Workplace Is a DV-Free Zone" Bill of Rights and put into place a policy that ensures that victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking are safe at work.
The statistics on domestic violence experienced in the workplace are appalling. Yet, a 2013 survey conducted by the Society for Human Resources Management showed that 65 percent of companies in the United States do not have a formal policy to address domestic violence at the workplace.
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