Does your company need an employee assistance
program (EAP)?
- No company is drug and alcohol free! More than
95% of all those who abuse drugs and alcohol are currently
employed. An estimated 13.8 million adults, or 7.4% of the
population, are alcoholics.
- Substance abuse is very expensive. Alcohol
abuse costs the courntry $98 billion and takes 100,000 lives a
year, says Enoch Gordis, director of the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Billions more are spent on drug and
alcohol related psychological and emotional problems. Nearly one
third of all seriously ill hospital patients show symptoms of
alcohol abuse.
- The National Institute of Mental Health
reports that up to one-fifth of any employee group has
personal problems serious enough to warrant treatment.
Eight out of ten of the most widely used prescription drugs are
directly related to the treatment of problems associated with
stress.
- The results of cumulative stress in many
individuals are not realized until the body responds physically
with illness. Almost three-fourths of all illness is thought to be
induced by stress. These stress induced illnesses are increasing
company health care costs at an alarming rate. One major American
automobile manufacturer reports that it now spends more on health
care for its workers than on steel to build its cars.
- Countless studies continue to build an
overwhelming mass of information and evidence strongly suggesting
that all problems produce some form of stress which can induce
additional problems producing even more stress. Uncontrolled, this
endless stress chain can grow like a killer cancer. But, unlike
cancer, stress is highly contagious.
- Eating poppy seeds or using a nasal inhaler
can cause workers to flunk drug tests. So three-quarters of large
companies surveyed by the American Management Association now use
a medical-review office to double-check their test results, up
from about half last year. (Source?)
- Human resource investments are too costly to
ignore. A replacement for a $60,000.00 employee can easily cost
the company as much as $116,000.00 for recruitment, training and
salary during the transitional year.
- Life Management International's Employee
Assistance Program provides professional solutions to your
company's human resource needs.
Career Management International, Inc.
235 West 18th Street
Houston, TX 77008
jobbox@cmi-lmi.com
voice: (713) 623-8780
fax: (713) 623-4569
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