Substance drug abuse at the workplace over the years has become a headache for business owners and they have lost billions of dollars according to the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCDA). Recent researches have come up with plenty of confounding results about the usage of illegal drugs being used by employees at the workplace.
Employers have serious concerns over the substance abuse of employees at the workplace because; it can change the behavior of employees at any point in time. Employees start lacking productivity, suffer from tardiness, absenteeism, the ratio of errors can arise, and last but not least workplace accidents can happen. In the United States, only employers have to face losses of up to 100 billion dollars a year.
Therefore, employers want to increase productivity and lower the cost of medical incentives for the employees. Let’s discuss in brief the workplace drug abuse affects and causes in terms of infographics.
