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Employers should identify substance abuse warning signs

As addiction, especially of prescription drugs, remains a rising problem among adults and adolescents, it is important for employers to identify the warning signs of both prescription and illegal drug abuse, states Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, private residential treatment center for women and adolescent girls in Chicago.

By Amanda McGrory-Dixon | Updated on June 26, 2012

As addiction, especially of prescription drugs, remains a rising problem among adults and adolescents, it is important for employers to identify the warning signs of both prescription and illegal drug abuse, states Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, private residential treatment center for women and adolescent girls in Chicago.

Timberline Knolls’ recommendation comes during June’s National Employee Wellness, an annual initiative helping employers develop successful health and wellness strategies, and soon after a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that finds more than 12 million people used prescription painkillers nonmedically in 2010.

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