{"id":4070,"date":"2018-07-20T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthadvocate.com\/site\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2020-01-14T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T22:10:29","slug":"employees-suffering-losses-from-addiction-lose-their-jobs-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthadvocate.com\/site\/article\/employees-suffering-losses-from-addiction-lose-their-jobs-last","title":{"rendered":"Employees Suffering Losses from Addiction Lose Their Jobs Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James Davis | <em>HR Daily Advisor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the recent #SHRM2018, I attended a session entitled \u201cAddressing Prescription Overuse in the Workplace,\u201d given by Norbert J. Alicea, Executive Vice President with Health Advocate\u2019s EAP+Work\/Life Services, and Raffi Terzian, the Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations and Senior Medical Director at Health Advocate. Their session addressed the astounding and alarming impact that addiction has on the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the session was eye-opening and deeply concerning. Perhaps one of the most powerful things that Alicea said was that \u201cPeople lose their family 5 years before they lose their job, it\u2019s the last thing to go.\u201d Addicts on average experienced destruction because of their addiction for at least 5 years before their addiction cost them their jobs. That\u2019s 5 years that an addict would, at the very least, be underperforming at work and, at worse, be destructive to his or her organization.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t think of a better way to characterize how important it can be to address addiction in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The session covered a wealth of facts and figures. Here are a few that were presented, all about 2016:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>116 people died every day from opioid overdose\u2014over 42,000 a year.<\/li>\n<li>2,100,000 people misused prescription opioids for the first time.<\/li>\n<li>The economic cost due to opioid misuse and overdose was $504,000,000,000 (2015).<\/li>\n<li>The total cost for opioid addiction and overdose treatment for enrollees in large employer plans was $2,628,000,000. In 2006, it was $278,000,000, just shy of a 10-fold increase.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While opioid deaths and new opioid addictions grow every year, and while organizations lose resources and productivity, employees who are abusing drugs continue to work. The numbers above are just a tiny slice of the true impact of opioid and prescription drug use and abuse. But how do they specifically influence the individual workplace?<\/p>\n<p>Alicea and Terzian explained that, according to the National Safety Council, employees who abuse drugs are 2\u20135 times more likely to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take unexcused absences.<\/li>\n<li>Be late for work.<\/li>\n<li>Quit or be fired within 1 year of employment.<\/li>\n<li>Be involved in workplace incidents.<\/li>\n<li>File workers\u2019 compensation claims.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those costs add up very quickly with just one employee struggling with substance abuse at work and even faster if there are multiple abusers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Addiction Is a Disease<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Terzian introduced the session by saying, \u201cWe have to view opioid use through the lens of addiction. It\u2019s not a moral failing, it\u2019s a brain disease.\u201d Both presenters repeated this statement many times because it\u2019s that important. Alicea elaborated, \u201cI\u2019ve never run into the person who wants to be an addict in 25 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The image of a hooded figure slumped in an alleyway with a needle in his or her arm does not represent the clear majority of prescription drug abusers. Most are now, or were, like everyday people, with families, lives, and careers. The difference? They have a powerful addiction, and without help, they will succumb to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Red Flags of Addiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If employers are to help, they need to be able to identify the warning signs of a drug abuser. Alicea exclaimed, \u201cI\u2019d bet every person in this room, in this conference, across the states, knows someone with a substance abuse problem. We all know at least one person. But if I asked that question, we won\u2019t see a lot of hands go up. That\u2019s the power of denial.\u201d The presenters also mentioned that drug abusers\u2019 fellow employees know about substance abuse problems long before the employers do. How? Because the warning signs are visible to those who know them best.<\/p>\n<p>The more of the following red flags that an employee exhibits, the \u201cgreater the probability of an issue,\u201d said Alicea.<\/p>\n<p>Monday and Friday absenteeism\u2014Users who have kept it together for the workweek might be hurting to use their drug of choice unimpeded or be spent from using over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Absenteeism the day after payday\u2014These habits are expensive. Payday might be the only time a user can afford to purchase his or her drugs.<\/p>\n<p>General tardiness and\/or absenteeism\u2014Especially opioids can drain users of energy and make it difficult for them to come to work on time, or at all.<\/p>\n<p>Poor quality of work and\/or poor quantity of work\u2014If a user can\u2019t use at work, he or she might be experiencing the beginning of withdrawal. If he or she can use at work, the effects of the drugs have an equally distracting effect. Either way, his or her work will be affected.<\/p>\n<p>Theft\u2014The power of addiction leads many to make choices that you or I would never consider, especially if they are struggling to pay for their habit. Stealing equipment and other goods and money from work can help fund their addiction.<\/p>\n<p>If drug abusers\u2019 fellow workers know about their cohorts\u2019 drug problems, \u201cthey are looking to see what HR or a manager is doing about this problem,\u201d says Alicea. By not addressing the problem, what message is the company sending to its drug-abusing employees, never mind its loyal and clean employees?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drug Abusers Know Where to Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alicea said, \u201cpeople who use drugs and alcohol know exactly where to go and apply for a job. They know.\u201d What does that mean for employers that don\u2019t drug-test new employees? It means a high probability that the workplace will experience continuous problems from drug-abusing employees. After the session, I asked Alicea and Terzian about that phenomena. They related to me a few examples of organizations that, for various reasons, wanted to avoid preemployment drug tests. \u201cAnd they wonder why they constantly have problems,\u201d said Alicea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Can You Do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once an employer realizes that employees who abuse opioids and other prescription and illegal drugs need help, it can begin to find a way to administer that help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of companies had zero-tolerance policies. A lot of them are doing away with it, and I\u2019m all in favor of a second chance,\u201d said Alicea. He explained, \u201cIf you have an employee who worked for you for 10 years and they are relatively good, and they end up testing positive, and you terminate them\u2014you don\u2019t know if the new person has a problem, too, and you lose all of that knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alicea said the best way to help is to offer employees a one-time chance to get clean through a program (and prove it after the program is over) or be fired. Work, he said, represents a critical part of many people\u2019s identity. Remember, by the time they are potentially losing their jobs, many drug abusers have already pushed their friends and family out of their lives. Their work identity might be all they have left. And that can be a powerful motivator, says Alicea. That makes them decent candidates for rehabilitation.=<\/p>\n<p>Alicea said, \u201cby threatening the job, the core values of a person, that person has a high probability of success in making the change provided that it\u2019s monitored.\u201d He focused heavily on the value of monitoring and reinforced it when we talked after the session. He said, \u201cthe success rate in treatment today is really, really low. But if you have someone monitoring that person for 90-120 days after the treatment, the rate is really, really high.\u201d The reason is that they know that if they don\u2019t follow through with aftercare, they will lose their job\u2014their core personality\u2014and that\u2019s too much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Takeaway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This topic is incredibly complicated; the research is far from complete; and even with treatment, drug abusers have very real challenges ahead. If you deal with substance abusers at your organization\u2014and it\u2019s just a matter of time before you do\u2014it behooves you to explore how you can help those people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Davis | HR Daily Advisor At the recent #SHRM2018, I attended a session entitled \u201cAddressing Prescription Overuse in the Workplace,\u201d given by Norbert J. Alicea, Executive Vice President with Health Advocate\u2019s EAP+Work\/Life Services, and Raffi Terzian, the Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations and Senior Medical Director at Health Advocate. 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