The impact of behavioral health is finally getting its moment in the sun. As the shades of stigma are slowly lifted, people are beginning to speak about mental health and substance use disorders.
From the classrooms to the water coolers, thoughtful discussions are occurring every day. Consider a paper released by Harvard Business School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business citing that workplace stress accounts for nearly 8 percent of the national spend on healthcare and adds up to between $125 and $190 billion spent in healthcare costs per year.
Similarly, a study published in February 2015 by the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry noted that depression is the leading cause of disability for U.S. adults ages 15-44 and results in nearly 400 million disability days per year. These statistics indicate that unmet behavioral health needs have a significant impact on workforce productivity.
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