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The New York Times
Record numbers of college students use Adderral to get through college. The off-label use of prescription stimulants had come to represent the second-most-common form of illicit drug use in college by 2004. Only marijuana was more popular. And many of them enter the workplace addicted to the substance. In 2012, roughly 16 million Adderall prescriptions were written for adults between ages 20 and 39. Of concern is that very little is known about what Adderall does over years of use. To date, there is almost no research on the long-term effects on humans of using Adderall.
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The Recorder
Earlier this year, a landmark study published by the American Bar Association and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation confirmed what many within the legal profession have suspected for quite some time. More than 20 percent of licensed, employed attorneys exhibit behavior consistent with alcohol dependence and nearly 30 percent struggle with mental-health problems like depression.
It is not surprising, therefore, that many attorneys have colleagues who currently live with depression or, even worse, someone who has attempted or committed suicide. Among all professionals, lawyers rank among the highest in rates of suicide and depression.
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Workforce
What do you do, as an employer, when you learn of harassment about which no one has complained?
The short answer is you better do something, and you cannot do nothing. An employee alleging sexual harassment by a coworker must still establish that the employer is liable because it knew or should have known of the harassment, yet failed to take prompt and appropriate corrective action. When does an employer "know or should know" of harassment?
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SHRM
When Steve Albrecht was an officer with the San Diego Police Department, he frequently reached out to employee assistance program counselors to help him cope with the stresses of his job.
Speaking from both personal and professional experience, Albrecht, who now manages a San Diego-based training, coaching and consulting firm, says EAPs are an essential resource for employees who are under personal and professional stress.
Yet this valuable resource remains underused.
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Human Resource Executive Online
New research suggests many millennial workers are afraid to take vacation — even though they place a high value on work-life balance.
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The Legal Intelligencer
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, approximately 2 million employees are victims of workplace violence each year. Eighteen percent of violent crimes are committed at the workplace, and roughly 800 workplace homicides occur each year. Between January 2009 and July 2015, there were 133 mass shootings in the workplace and shootings account for 78 percent of all workplace homicides. Violence in the workplace must be a top concern for employers as no organization is immune from workplace violence and no organization can completely prevent it.
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economia
Following serious mental health illness Richard Martin changed career from high-flying City lawyer to advising workplaces on mental well-being. Here, he outlines why employers should invest in staff mental health
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Alternet
The nation's opioid epidemic shows no signs of abating – and in fact may be headed in a far more dangerous direction. That's the conclusion of journalist David Armstrong, who has been chronicling the scourge this year for STAT, a new health and medicine website. Armstrong has written about how heroin and, increasingly, fentanyl have overtaken narcotic painkillers as the drugs of choice for addicts – presenting new challenges for law enforcement and health professionals.
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The Wall Street Journal via Fox News
On a recent Thursday afternoon at Ohio State University, about 30 students sit in a classroom listening to instructor Kipp Pietrantonio lecture. "Imagine you were just handed your physics test, what would happen?" he asks. “You sweat,” calls out one student. "Your heart starts racing," says a young woman. "You get jittery," answers another. It is a meeting of the twice weekly "Beating Anxiety" workshop and Dr. Pietrantonio is a clinical psychologist who works at the university's counseling center. The workshop advises students to tackle anxiety by exercising, getting enough sleep and reframing catastrophic thoughts (if my friend doesn't text me back right away, she hates me) in more logical ways (maybe she's studying) among other strategies.
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