Working World Cafe on September 14th, 2009

Leo Miller, Vice President of Clinical Support Services at the Haymarket Center, has more than 30 years experience helping people overcome addiction. 
Today, he spoke with Perspectives’ Working World Café about his past experience as an internal EAP, why businesses should engage an EAP to help employees with issues like addiction, and his own road [...]

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Bernie Dyme on September 8th, 2009

Business leaders, like all Americans, have been agonizing over the economy and longing for its recovery.  But it’s certainly not the only recovery that HR managers and executives have been keeping an eye on. 
Employee alcohol and drug addiction impacts an extraordinary number of businesses a year – even when the economy is doing fine.  It’s [...]

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Cigarette companies make a significant profit from the sale of products that harm consumers and escalate health care costs. Unfortunately, the way the new “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” is crafted, cigarette manufacturers will not have to remove any of the toxic ingredients that are currently in cigarettes. There will nothing safer about a cigarette.

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