Author: John Patrick Hoffmann Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 0788171038 Category : Alcoholism Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
Presents detailed information on illicit drug use and heavy alcohol use among full-time U.S. workers. Shows the percentage of full-time workers, ages 18-49, who reported illicit drug and heavy alcohol use, by specific occupation and industry categories. Presents information on trends in prevalence over time, employee drug testing, absence from work, and prevalence among part-time workers. Also: information on employment, age, race-ethnicity, marital status, health status, and problems associated with use. The employment data includes current status (e.g., full-time or part-time employees), detailed occupation and industry classifications, work history, and drug testing at work. Tables.
Author: John P. Hoffmann Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Servic ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 192
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Covers the period 1991-1993. Focuses on full-time workers aged 18-49 years.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309459575 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 483
Book Description
Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Author: John Patrick Hoffmann Publisher: ISBN: Category : Alcoholism Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
This report uses information from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) to examine a number of issues involving illicit drug and heavy alcohol use among U.S. workers and workplace policies that address drug and alcohol use. It presents data derived from 7,055 NHSDA respondents, age 18-49, who reported that they were working full-time at the time they were interviewed. These respondents represent over 78 million full-time workers in the United States. In 1994, the NHSDA included an expanded set of questions concerning workplace issues. This expanded set was the result of a collaborative effort between the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the U.S. Department of Labor, and the U.S. Small Business Administration. The 1994 NHSDA instrument included questions about various work-related outcomes (e.g., missing work, being fired, workplace accidents), occupation, establishment size, whether respondents had been provided with information at their workplace regarding use of alcohol or drugs, the presence of written policies and employee assistance programs for workers with drug or alcohol problems, and the use of various drug testing options and employees' perceptions about them.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309439124 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 171
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Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.
Author: Michael Robert Frone Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) ISBN: 9781433812446 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309486483 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 175
Book Description
The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More than 2 million people in the United States are estimated to have OUD, which is caused by prolonged use of prescription opioids, heroin, or other illicit opioids. OUD is a life-threatening condition associated with a 20-fold greater risk of early death due to overdose, infectious diseases, trauma, and suicide. Mortality related to OUD continues to escalate as this public health crisis gathers momentum across the country, with opioid overdoses killing more than 47,000 people in 2017 in the United States. Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis, in large part because tools that already existâ€"like evidence-based medicationsâ€"are not being deployed to maximum impact. To support the dissemination of accurate patient-focused information about treatments for addiction, and to help provide scientific solutions to the current opioid crisis, this report studies the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for OUD. It examines available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.
Author: Sharon L. Larson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
Presents findings on substance use among workers & on workplace drug policy & programs from the 2002, 2003, & 2004 Nat. Surveys on Drug Use & Health (NSDUHs). NSDUH is an annual survey of the civilian, non-institutionalized population of the U.S. aged 12 years or older. The survey provides data on substance use & related issues among the U.S. population. NSDUH collects info. on employment status, type of business, specific occupations & industries, & info. on drug-testing policies & programs from U.S. workers. This report analyzes the worker info. in conjunction with the substance use data collected in the survey to investigate substance use among full-time employed workers aged 18-64 during the period 2002-04. Over 100 tables.
Author: John Patrick Hoffmann
Author: John P. Hoffmann
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Author: John Patrick Hoffmann
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Author: National Survey on Drug Use and Health (U.S.)
Author: Michael Robert Frone
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Author: Sharon L. Larson