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Why you need an alcohol and drug policy for your business
Alcohol and Drug Information (SAMHSA)
Manager's checklist for substance abuse
Substance Abuse Professional
Specific Information on each drug type
Essential Knowledge Series for Managers
New Ruling on Drug Testing (Canada)
Duty to Accommodate in the Workplace
Canadian Human Rights and Drug Testing
Canadian Centre for Addiction Information
Current News About Alcohol and Drugs from around the World
Transportation DOT Part 40, TESTING
Substance Abuse News and Resource Centre
Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy
American Office DOT Complience
Could the problem you are dealing with be addiction? Do you need Human Resource Consulting?
Only 4% of people with alcohol and drug problems are on skid row. Where are the other 96%? They live near you or with you, work beside you, provide you services, etc. They are in your community presently active in their addiction. It costs companies money to keep people working with an addiction problem. If you are like most people you have little time to waste on ideas that do not work. If managers do not deal with the issue it just gets worse and other workers can become unhappy. This also costs money. Alcohol and drug problems can be successfully addressed in the workplace. Sometimes outside help is required. Getting accurate information on alcohol and drug problems is always useful. Sometimes "common sense" is the worst thing you can use. If at least 7% of people have an addiction problem then you need some "Essential Knowledge" Addiction training in the workplace is an excellent way to start. Please e-mail for information about the variety of workshops available to meet this need.
Do you know how to help someone with an addiction?
Are your managers trained to recognize an alcohol or drug issue?
Will better trained managers save you money as opposed to drug testing?
Substance Abuse Professional Guidelines
For more information: Nicholas Barry, M.S.W, I.C.A.D.C.,
Certified Alcohol and Drug Counsellor,
Employee Assistance Social Worker
Substance Abuse Professional, SAP
Saint John, New Brunswick,
Canada
506-672-2618
Fax: 506-672-2619
email: nick@addictionconsulting.com
Recommended Readings
Brief
Analysis of Current Workplace Substance Abuse Issues and Activities
in Canada
Barbara Butler & Associates Inc., March, 2004 (updated:
August, 2005)
Position
on Employment-related Alcohol and Drug Testing
Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC), November,
2004
Who
is responsible? Employer perspective: Dealing with alcohol and drug
issues through a comprehensive approach
Barbara Butler & Associates Inc., 2004
Reminder:
Alcohol and the Office Party
Client Update, Hicks Morley Barristers & Solicitors,
November, 2003
Primer
3: Identifying and Treating Alcohol Problems: A Sound Business
Investment
Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, George Washington
University Medical Center, 2003
Keeping
good company: an employer's guide to understanding and avoiding
alcohol liability
MADD Canada, 2002
Related Resources
APOLNET -
Workplace Alcohol Policies
Canadian
Centre for Occupational Health & Safety (CCOHS)
Canadian
Employee Assistance Program Association (CEAPA)
Centre
for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) - Workplace Health
Promotion
ILO
Database on Substance Abuse and Tobacco in the Workplace
Safework:
Workplace Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Programmes,
International Labour Organization
Treatment Improvement Exchange
Principles of Drug and Alcohol Treatment
Online Journals & Newsletters
Addiction Messenger; Ideas for Treatment Improvement
Free quarterly newsletter of the Northwest Frontier ATTC.Addiction Treatment Forum
Online forum for drug treatment information. Informative articles in the Forum journal. National conferences and meetings posted here.Alcohol Alerts
From the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismAlcohol and Health: Current Evidence
Newsletter from Boston University that provides summaries of the latest clinically relevant research on alcohol and health. Through its summaries and other features, the newsletter aims to highlight alcohol issues and provide valuable information that can be applied in clinical teaching, practice, and research.
Alcohol Research & Health
Journal from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismHarm Reduction Journal
An Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal whose focus is prevalent patterns of psychoactive drug use, the public policies meant to control them, and the search for effective methods of reducing the adverse medical, public health, and social consequences associated with both drugs and drug policies.International Journal of Drug Testing
New on-line journal with articles such as, "Legal Aspects of Drug Testing: A Review of Relevant Cases," "Bibliography: Hair Testing for Drug Cases." Articles are downloadable in Microsoft Word format.Journal of Addictive Diseases
The official journal of ASAM, the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Table of Contents (complete with abstracts) available for this Journal (in PDF, HTML, or plain text).Journal of Gambling Issues
A full-text online journal, features articles on gambling-related policy, research, treatment, and the experience of gambling. Free automated subscriptions available.Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
The primary source for the most up-to-date health information. Selected articles online.Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse
Tables of contents and abstracts of articles in the Journal. Copies of the articles can be purchased from the publisher.Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Government statistical data on causes of death. Searchable index. The data in the weekly MMWR are provisional, based on weekly reports to CDC (Center for Disease Control) by state health departments.NIDA Notes
From the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Full text onlineParadigm
Paradigm is a high quality, 24-page magazine for professionals and individuals interested in addiction-related subjects. Each quarterly issue contains articles written by the staff of the Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery and other experts in the field. Read onlind in PDF format or send for a free subscriptions.Prevention Pipeline
Articles on preventing alcohol, tobacco, and drug use in your community. From the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information. (NCADI).Psychiatric Times
Full text articles. Includes a topic, title, and author index.Online Libraries
Search databases for online material or bibliographic information
Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH)
This database is from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (NIAAA) It covers all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism, and contains approximately 100,000 records. Included in ETOH are abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works. Updated monthly, ETOH contains research findings from the late 1960s to the present, as well as historical research literature.Alcohol History Database, Rutgers
The Alcohol History Collection provides access to the Alcohol History Collection at the Alcohol Studies Library of over 500 monographs, pamphlets and journals on the Temperance and Prohibition movements. It also includes images in the form of drawings, engravings, photographs, and portraits, in addition to samples of temperance regalia and banners.Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS)
The Alcohol Policy Information System is an electronic resource that provides authoritative, detailed, and comparable information on alcohol-related policies in the United States, at both State and Federal levels. Designed primarily as a tool for researchers, APIS is intended to encourage and facilitate research on the effects and effectiveness of alcohol-related policies.Behavioral Health World for Practitioners
Registration required for full access to site resources. Useful resource library with a collection of educational and professional materials and information for client education.Center for Alcohol Studies, Rutgers
This database contains over 50,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials.Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) Violence Literature Database (VioLit)
This database stores bibliographic information and CSPV abstracts of violence related research and literature. This literature primarily includes journal articles, books, reports and literature reviews on the topics related to juvenile violence.Drugscope Drug Data database
One of the most comprehensive English language collections on drug use in the world. The collection spans four decades and contains many hard to find items, as well as journal articles, reports and books. The database of over 85,000 records of books, journals, articles, grey literature, government reports, policy documents and videos concerned with the illegal drugs and their use is fully searchable both through the use of designated keywords and through free text searching.Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
ERIC is a national information system funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide access to education literature and resources.European Gateway on Alcohol, Drugs, and Addictions
The mission of this site is to provide the ATOD professionals with a tool that will help them to quickly find, on the Internet, evaluated and valuable ATOD information and documents. Articles are in a variety of European languages.Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Resource Database
Access to information on thousands of resources, including audiotapes, books, CD-ROMs, newsletter, magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, pamphlets and booklets, posters, videos, slide shows, and Web-based materials.Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
At the University of Iowa. Links to UI health databases and indexes, the UI library catalog, and The Virtual Hospital, the digital health information resource for health providers and patients.The Hazelden Research Library
The Hazelden Library is one of the largest repositories of addiction resources in the world. Through our Virtual Research Library you can search our databases of over 10,000 books, videos, and audio tapes to create your own bibliography.Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL)
Library contains nearly 7 million documents related to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products. Visitors can search, view, and download these documents from the web site.The Lindesmith Center Online Library
This site includes an extensive collection of full-text drug and drug policy-related materials searchable by subject or in its entirety.Marin Institute's Alcohol Industry & Policy Database
Contains citations and brief abstracts for over thirteen thousand articles and news stories about the alcohol beverage industry, alcohol policy, and prevention efforts. The time period covered is 1991 to the present.National Library of Medicine (NLM) online databases including:
Medline/Pubmed provides access to bibliographic information which includes MEDLINE as well as additional life science journals. Audience: health professionals.
Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET) has Information on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, toxicological effects of drugs, etc.
MedlinePlus is for anyone with a medical question, especially consumers. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for accurate, current, medical information. This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish, and clinical trials.
National Substance Abuse Web Index
This is a search engine that specifically searches the contents of some of the best substance abuse sites on the web. A list of these sites is provided. Information on illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco are provided in these websites.NCADI - Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drug Databases
Links to 10 searchable databases, including Prevention Materials Database, IDA, Treatment Resources, NSAWI, ERIC, ETOH, MEDLINE, and SAID.Policy Information Exchange (PIE) Online
Provides access to authoritative primary source materials on a wide range of issues affecting mental health policy in North America. There are currently 2063 full-text reports in the database.Project Cork bibliographic database
Contains references, with abstracts, to over 13,000 journal articles, books, and book chapters on alcoholism and substance abuse. From Dartmouth College.Smoking and Health database
The database contains over 56,000 abstracts of journal articles, books handbook chapters, dissertations, reports, conference proceedings and papers, government documents, policy or legal documents, editorials, letters, and comments on articles. Sources include the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the American Journal of Public Health.Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA)
Data and surveys on topics in substance abuse and mental health.The University of Minnesota library has a link to the DRUGINFO (DRSC) database which covers the educational, sociological, and psychological aspects of alcohol and drug use and abuse. It contains bibliographic citations to over 25,000 documents from 1968-present. (From the library page click on Indexes, then "D" in the alphabetical listing to get to the DRSC database.)
Virtual Clearinghouse on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (VCATOD)
The Virtual Clearinghouse is a global "virtual library" of information not easily found elsewhere, and is being built by a partnership of organizations in Europe, the Americas, Austral-Asia, and Africa. The web site is trilingual; English, French, Spanish, and the target group is professionals.Working Partners Substance Abuse Information Database (SAID)
This interactive database provides a one-stop source of information with summaries and full text of materials relating to workplace substance abuse issues. Employers can draw on articles from experts as well as success stories from a variety of industries to assist them in establishing and maintaining a workplace substance abuse program.