Addiction affects every aspect of life, including the workplace. We have tips for employers and employees on creating a culture of substance wellness.
Addiction and alcoholism is insanity, and attempting to “manage it” is like swimming with sharks and trying to talk them out of becoming their lunch. Sharks don’t bargain; they just eat.
Tawny Lara of SobrieTea Party shares her experience of working at Lululemon, and how the yoga chain's company culture supported her sobriety.
hose who don’t drink — for whatever reason — are made to feel ostracized, judged, and unsupported by coworkers and employers.
Do companies know that their rockstar employees have drug problems? Or do they simply choose to look the other way until it's too late?
2016 threw some new kinks into the old machine: state legalization of marijuana, and the prescription opioid addiction crisis. These rising challenges are a juxtaposition taking employers by surprise: an illicit drug gone legal, and a legal drug turned into a costly epidemic.
Doesn’t that sound like an ideal problem for employers to have—workaholism?! Not so fast. There's a lot of misunderstanding about what workaholism is and isn’t. Let’s clear it up.
Break out your passport and join us as we take a world tour of countries with strong corporate drinking cultures.
How powerful is workplace culture? How much do people allow their actions to be shaped by others? The famous Asch experiment painted a picture that is downright scary:
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Let’s take a look at a significant opportunity concerning substance wellbeing in the workplace: prevention.
The presence of addiction in the workspace is the norm, not the exception. So why does it so often fly below the radar?
Altering addictive behaviors isn’t easy, but it isn’t impossible either. Employers have a big role to play.
Today, substance wellness is a critical but missing piece of wellness programs that can have significant impact on your population. It should be considered both a prevention and treatment program across acuity levels rather than a treatment-only program for severe misusers.
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