Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy
Open Access

Research Article

Workplace Prevention of Prescription Drug Abuse: Pilot Assessment of a New Psycho-educational Program

¹Organizational Wellness and Learning Systems, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

²Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, USA

Corresponding Author:

Michael Neeper
Organizational Wellness and Learning Systems
The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Tel: 972-974-6663
E-mail: mneeper@organizationalwellness.com

Received date: Jan 29, 2016; Accepted date: Apr 11, 2016; Published date: Apr 15, 2016

Citation: Neeper M, Bennett J (2016) Workplace Prevention of Prescription Drug Abuse: Pilot Assessment of a New Psycho-educational Program. J Addict Res Ther 7:277. doi:10.4172/2155-6105.1000277

Copyright: © 2016 Neeper M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited

Prescription drug misuse and abuse is a growing problem in America. It has negative effects on employees themselves, as well as productivity in the workplace, costing organizations money. This brief note describes a webinar that was designed to increase awareness of prescription drug abuse and misuse, as well as offering options on treatment for employees. 91% of participants agreed that they would use content from the webinar to assist the employees at their organizations. Ideally, a full pre-posttest analysis would be conducted on these data, but for now, these data provide support that the webinar was beneficial to participants.

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