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Winter 2018 Vol. 23, Issue 1<br />
ADVANTAGE<br />
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL <br />
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Help Put a Stop to This Everyday Killer<br />
O pioid use and misuse is<br />
having a serious effect on<br />
the U.S. workforce. According<br />
to a 2017 NSC employer survey,<br />
more than seven in 10 employ-<br />
ers are directly impacted by pre-<br />
scription drug use or misuse by<br />
their workforce. Nearly half (48<br />
percent) identified a negative busi-<br />
ness impact such as missed work,<br />
lower productivity and increased<br />
near-misses and occupational<br />
injuries.<br />
An employee with an opioid<br />
use disorder misses three times as<br />
much work as one who doesn’t—an<br />
estimated 29 days a year—as noted<br />
in the 2017 data analysis of the<br />
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