• 77% of illicit drug users and 90% of alcoholics are employed – mainly in construction, commercial truck driving, and manufacturing.
• Approximately 35 to 50 percent of all workers’ compensation claims are related to substance abuse in the workplace and injuries on and off the job,
• And cost employers about $200 billion annually.
• Substance abusers are
• 33 to 50 percent less productive.
• Absent about three weeks or more per year
• Tardy three times more often than non-users
• Three to four times more likely to have an accident on the job
• Responsible for 50 to 80 percent of all pilferage, theft and loss

[From “Drug and alcohol screening can cut down liabilities” by Dr. Patricia David, CorpHealth in Lift magazine, September-October 2006]