As per the employer’s health plan the cost involved in substance abuse treatment might be less, but the drug and alcohol problems cost the United States approximately $276 billion per year. Most of these expenses are produced due to lost work productivity related to substance abuse (including absenteeism and poor job performance) and health care costs associated with substance abuse. Studies revealed that substance-abusing or drug-abusing employees work for about two thirds of their capability and they are three times more likely to be late for work. Moreover, employees who…
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Smoking Impacts Women More Than Men
Smoking is injurious to health whether it may be women or men. Health is important for very one. Heart diseases are common for those who smoke. Women usually get heart disease much later than but not in case if they smoke. In a recent study, it was revealed that smoking causes more damage for women than men. Women are suffering heart diseases more than 12 years earlier than men by smoking and men, smokers get heart diseases about six years earlier than men who don’t smoke. Women should realize they…
Read MoreSafety warnings turn adverse for prescription drug growth
People have now become very smart. (I don’t mean they weren’t smart before; they grew smarter). They have increased starting looking for safety before using some drugs prescribed a doctor, blindly, as they used to do it before. When you are prescribed a drug, it is likely that many of us will look out or confirm with the side affects before using them. No matter, even a very experienced and well-practiced doctor prescribed them. These concerns over drug safety have decreased the national spending rate on prescribed drugs. According to…
Read MoreHow Effective Is Work Place Drug Testing?
Though employee drug testing has many benefits, the program has always been controversial between employers and employees. One of the more controversial employment practices is the testing of job applicants and employees. It might be the privacy issues or accuracy issues, but employee drug testing isn’t liked by many people, especially the employees. And this often results in a question on how effective is it to conduct drug testing program in work places. There will be no second thought on the employer having right to sustain a drug-free work place.…
Read MoreAccuracy of the Drug Test
There are different kinds of drug tests are their, to detect the drug abuse of the people. How many different types are used? What is the accuracy for the different types? The detailed information is discussed below. There are several different types of tests given to detect drug use. If current drug use is suspected, a blood or breath test often is administered. If previous drug use is suspected, a urine or hair test or saliva drug test may be used. These tests look for chemical metabolites, or traces, that…
Read MoreHow people get addicted to smoking?
In general people get addicted to bad habits easily than to the good ones. This is human psychology. Smoking is a serious issue in terms of addiction. People don’t take smoking addiction as serious as drug addiction because they don’t feel that it will create some serious impacts on health like other drugs does. In fact smoking is more serious than drug addiction. The main reason for this is that people don’t treat it as a serious problem at all. The main factor for smoking addiction is the nicotine in…
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