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Employee Assistance Research Foundation
The Employee Assistance Research Foundation's latest project is designed to address a critical deficiency in the employee assistance/work-life knowledge base — a definitive resource that documents the history and evolution of EAPs. The initial phase of this effort is now complete and available — video interviews with eight key informants focused on the development of EAPs and Work-Life in the U.S. and Canada over the last 50 years.
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JAMA Psychiatry
Are U.S. state medical marijuana laws one of the underlying factors for increases in risk for adult cannabis use and cannabis use disorders seen since the early 1990s? In this analysis using U.S. national survey data collected in 1991-1992, 2001-2002, and 2012-2013 from 118,497 participants, the risk for cannabis use and cannabis use disorders increased at a significantly greater rate in states that passed medical marijuana laws than in states that did not.
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The New York Times
Blinking lights, the clicking sound of coins, and perks like free or inexpensive food, drinks and casino bus trips are enticing many older women to gamble.
For some people, that seductive environment can be extremely dangerous.
"Casinos are trained to make you feel welcome, while you lose your life," said Sandra Adell, 70, a literature professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who recounted her experiences as a compulsive gambler in the book “Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen.” In an interview, Professor Adell said that advertisements aimed at older adults often show smiling people, dressed up and looking glamorous, "to create an illusion that plays to people"s weaknesses."
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Fortune
Talkspace is an app which gives the user the option to chat with their therapists over text, audio, or video — whenever, wherever. They are now marketing Talkspace for Business to corporation. Once a company is signed up with Talkspace, the company sends over posters for advertisements, as well as user handbooks, content calendars and email reminders. Are they a competitor or an adjunct to traditional employee assistance?
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University of Phoenix
To better understand how first responders are affected by their professions, University of Phoenix commissioned a 2017 survey on first responder mental health, surveying 2,000 U.S. adults who are employed as firefighters, police officers, EMT/paramedics and nurses. The survey not only revealed that a high percentage of first responders are dealing with traumatic events in their line of work, but many are also experiencing negative mental health symptoms.
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Employee Benefit Adviser
Concern over the abuse of painkillers has led addiction experts to declare the U.S. in the midst of an opioid and heroin epidemic. But, employee benefit professionals are not asking for enhanced addiction treatment coverage for their employees. Instead, benefit advisers are offering traditional alcohol and drug addiction treatment services to address the use of painkillers and heroin in the workplace.
Unless an employer specifically asks about opioid addiction services, advisers often do not broach the subject. The topics of extended stays at rehab and sober living facilities are rarely addressed.
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The Guardian
Everyone from social workers to senior judges can find themselves suffering with stress. And yet people can usually cope with bouts of short-term stress in the workplace so long as they are well supported and get recovery time. So the aim is to retain — or regain — that inherent ability to bounce back.
The experience from central civil service is encouraging. Staff numbers and budgets have been cut in nearly all departments while workloads have risen and new Brexit departments set up — and yet the latest Cabinet Office employee survey shows staff engagement ratings rose in nearly every department.
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