1. On average, drug users cost companies 300% more in medical costs and benefits.
2. Drug users often admit to selling drugs to co-workers.
3. Drug-Free Workplace programs typically bring reductions in Worker’s Compensation rates, health care rates, turnover, and absenteeism.
4. Government studies reveal that 1 out of every 6 workers has a drug problem.
5. Drug abusers cost employers $10,000 annually per employee.
6. The benefits of a Drug-Free Workplace program include increased productivity, increased employee morale, and safer work environment.
7. Drug-Free Workplace programs typically bring reductions in Worker’s Compensation rates, health care rates, turnover, and absenteeism.
8. Drug abusers are 1/3 less productive than their abstaining co-workers.
9. Drug users often admit to selling drugs to co-workers.
10. On average, drug abusers are absent up to 16 times more often than their abstaining co-workers
11. Most drug abusers admit to stealing from employers.
13. On average, drug abusers cost companies 300% more in medical costs and benefits.
14. Most states offer a reduction in worker’s compensation rates for employers who adhere to a Drug-Free Workplace Policy.
15. Every day, 2,000 teenagers use a prescription drug to get high for the first time. Many of these kids just had to open the medicine cabinets in their own homes.
16. Heroin is the 3rd most abused drug affecting our suburban youth communities across the country behind alcohol and marijuana…