Addiction and Recovery

It's Never Too Late for Success: One Man's Story

Today I have the honor of interviewing an amazing man with a truly inspiring story. So often, I hear from entrepreneurs who are experiencing setbacks in l...  Read more

More Employees Admit Drug Use, Alcohol Abuse

As many as 10 million drug users now hold full-time jobs, but most companies have not taken steps to address the problem.  Read more

Coping with Drugs

Profile of three companies' drug and alcohol policies.  Read more

Why Drug Testing Is A Bad Idea

The call keeps going out for mandatory drug testing of people in jobs ranging from truck driver to basketball player to investment banker. And nowhere is...  Read more

Alcoholism In The Workplace

Especially in small companies that can't afford in-house occupational alcoholism and employee assistance programs, employers and managers seldom deal effe...  Read more

The Anonymous Alcoholic

Problem drinkers often don't even know they're the problem.  Read more

Substance Abuse

Substance abuse in the workplace is a subject of concern to many small business owners, to one degree or another. Oftentimes the issue is a sensitive one ...  Read more

Habit-Forming

New business produces a tabloid targeting recovering addicts and alcoholics and their families.  Read more

Healthy Returns

Before 'wellness' became all the rage, a small Minnesota sawmill found a commonsense way to reduce accidents, alcoholism, and absenteeism  Read more

Do You Have a Right to Know?

FaxPoll results on employee drug and alcohol abuse.  Read more

The Savior Complex

As a CEO, you instinctively want to help workers whose personal problems are interfering with their job performance. A look at how far one business owner wen...  Read more

Dry Shoulder for Hire

Using employee assistance programs what to look for in them.  Read more

The Examined Health-Insurance Bill

Reducing health-care costs by analyzing itemized bills, becoming self-insured, soliciting outside bids.  Read more

Team Angst

A psychiatrist examines the conflict that often arises in work teams, comparing them with group therapy sessions. A good team relationship, he suggests, requ...  Read more

Abuse

Survey: Of the companies taking any action, what are businesses doing about employee substance abuse?  Read more

When an Addict Seeks a Job

Fresh from rehab, a former worker wants his job back. What can you do?  Read more

An Alternative to Drug Testing

Two companies develop innovative alternatives to drug testing.  Read more

Managing People;

Major-league athletes may get the headlines, but they're not alone in their susceptibility to drug abuse. High-flying brokers, top executives, foremen, s...  Read more

It was the volunteer fireman's vanity that made all the difference. Still in his early twenties, he combed through medical journals seeking a cure f...  Read more

Drug Testing: Yes Or No

Lewis Maltby's excellent article makes a strong and reasoned argument. However, his selective references to the American Management Association's recent r...  Read more

And Whose Syringe Might This Be?

Why one company had to institute a drug policy and how they did it.  Read more

Wheeling and Dealing

The entrepreneurial set has taken wheeling and dealing to a whole new venue: go-kart courses. It's the new golf.  Read more

Carl Rupp: Self-Made in America

Carl Rupp lost it all when his drug addiction landed him in prison. Well, almost everything--he never lost his determination to be a successful entrepreneur....  Read more

Lowering Drug- and Alcohol-Testing Costs

Lowering the cost of testing employees for drugs and alcohol.  Read more

Does Drinking Help Your Career? Maybe, CEOs Say

A new study has stirred up debate about what role socializing plays in the workplace.  Read more

Internet Addiction in Children

A recent research study done in Taiwan has raised questions about internet ad...  Read more

Truth and Fiction

The creator of 'Hill Street Blues' discusses why passion is necessary in running a business.  Read more