You probably heard about it before you saw it. NPR and CNN were running stories about it once a week for a while. And then twice a week. For a period of time, it was all anyone could talk about: The Opioid Epidemic. People were getting addicted to powerful prescription painkillers. Those news stories went away after a while. And for much of the country, it tasted acutely similar to the Ebola scare. That is to say, it seemed like a lot of media attention was given to a problem that did not end up affecting anybody that strongly. But
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Opioids in the American workplace are a growing concern in the U.S. – 2 out of every 3 human resource professionals say their workplace has been affected by prescription drug abuse or will be impacted by prescription drug abuse. But in order to fight against opioids we need to fully understand them first. To understand opioids we should go over exactly what classify as. There are 4 different main types of opioids: natural, semi-synthetic, fully-synthetic, and illegal. Euphoria-inducing properties can offer a respite from the physical and/or mental pain they are dealing with. In 2017, the CDC announced that opioid