Creating and Maintaining the Drug-free Workforce
Creating and Maintaining the Drug-free Workforce

Author: Bob Wright

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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The bad news is that substance abuse today costs the average American business more than 25 percent of annual profits through added health care and compensation expenses, poor productivity, liability, theft, and impaired decision making. The good news is that substance abuse represents your largest, single, changeable operating cost. Eliminate it from your workplace, and both profits and productivity are certain to increase dramatically. Here's a timely, much-needed book that offers legally sound, clinically-based guidelines for setting up a comprehensive identification and intervention program to deal with drug and alcohol problems at your company. Written by two of America's leading experts in the field of substance abuse, Creating and Maintaining the Drug-Free Work force features a proven "win-win" approach that has been shown capable of motivating even the most troubled employees to get clean and stay clean. You'll learn the legal grounds for employer intervention, as defined by current federal and state laws and regulations; telltale signs that indicate a particular employee may be abusing alcohol or drugs; the pros and cons of conducting pre-employment for-cause, post-accident, random, or re-entry drug testing; how to intervene successfully when you lack hard evidence of substance abuse (early intervention) and the different methods to use when you have proof that a problem exists (late intervention); what you need to know up-front about the "addiction syndrome" - a pattern of denial, deceit, and dependency that is common to all substance abusers; how to use education and supervisor training to raise employee awareness and prevent future problems from arising; when, where, and how to utilize outside counselors, treatment providers, and self-help recovery programs, with an in-depth analysis that compares all of these various options; how to supervise re-entry, establish a companywide support system, and prevent relapses from occurring; and much more!

Workplace Drug Testing
Workplace Drug Testing

Author: Alain G. Verstraete

Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0853696942

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This comprehensive text provides clear explanations of the effects of drugs on human performance and the need for workplace drug testing. It provides essential information on the regulatory and legal frameworks around the world, how to set policies and coverage of all aspects of drug analysis and the associated interpretation of results.Contents include:* epidemiology of drug use in the working population* the evidence base and guidelines for workplace drug testing* legal, regulatory aspects and policies for drugs and alcohol* urine and alternative sample collection process* analytical techniques and specimen adulteration.Case studies of successful programmes are also included to illustrate the principles discussed.Written by internationally acknowledged experts this informative book will be essential reading for anyone interested in workplace drug testing or setting up such a system including clinical and forensic toxicologists, occupational health physicians, nurses, human resources, drug counselling and treatment providers, analytical chemists and lawyers.Alain Verstraete is Professor at the Department of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium and Department Head of the Toxicology Laboratory of the Laboratory of Clinical Biology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.

Keeping Patients Safe
Keeping Patients Safe

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2004-03-27

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0309187362

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Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses' working conditions and demands. Licensed nurses and unlicensed nursing assistants are critical participants in our national effort to protect patients from health care errors. The nature of the activities nurses typically perform â€" monitoring patients, educating home caretakers, performing treatments, and rescuing patients who are in crisis â€" provides an indispensable resource in detecting and remedying error-producing defects in the U.S. health care system. During the past two decades, substantial changes have been made in the organization and delivery of health care â€" and consequently in the job description and work environment of nurses. As patients are increasingly cared for as outpatients, nurses in hospitals and nursing homes deal with greater severity of illness. Problems in management practices, employee deployment, work and workspace design, and the basic safety culture of health care organizations place patients at further risk. This newest edition in the groundbreaking Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm series discusses the key aspects of the work environment for nurses and reviews the potential improvements in working conditions that are likely to have an impact on patient safety.

Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use in the Workforce and Workplace
Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use in the Workforce and Workplace

Author: Michael Robert Frone

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781433812446

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This authoritative book examines what we know and don't know about workforce and workplace substance involvement, including popular myths about the prevalence, causes, and productivity outcomes of employee substance use.

Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in the Workplace
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in the Workplace

Author: Walter F. Scanlon

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1991-06-30

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0313389667

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Deteriorating job performance resulting from alcohol and drug dependency requires special handling and specific skills. Developing these skills and learning what to do with them are not difficult tasks. Employee assistance program professionals provide such training for key personnel. Focusing on strategic intervention designed to help employees with personal problems that interfere with job performance, Walter Scanlon describes the functions and benefits of employee assistance programs (EAPs), discusses their training and consultation objectives, and shows how EAPs effectively identify and address such problems. An important EAP goal is to reduce both the incidence of alcohol- and drug-related problems and the costs associated with them. EAPs target employees whose work performance has deteriorated because of chemical dependency or other personal problems. Scanlon has divided his discussion of EAPs into seven workable segments: the concept of EAP; EAP history; the history of drug and alcohol use; current drug and alcohol use in the United States; the legal, corporate, societal, and individual influences on rehabilitation and EAP; governmental influences including the Drug Free Workplace Act and mandatory drug screening; and cost considerations, including the trend toward managed health care.