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For every dollar they invested in an Employee
Assistance Program (EAP), employers generally save anywhere from $5 to
$16 (USDL, What Works: Workplaces Without Drugs, p. 17).
General Motors Corporation's EAP saves the company
$37 million per year -- $3,700 for each of the 10,000 employees enrolled
in the program (ASIS OP Norton Information Resources Center, Substance
Abuse; A Guide to Workplace Issues, 8/90, p. 23).
United Airlines estimates that it has a $16.95
return for every dollar invested in employee assistance (Ibid).
Northrop Corporation saw a 43% increase in the
productivity of each of its first 100 employees to enter an alcohol treatment
program. After three years' sobriety, the average savings for each was
nearly $20,000 (D Campbell & M Graham, Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace:
A Guide for Managers, New York: Facts on File Publications, 1988).
Philadelphia Police Department employees undergoing
treatment reduced their sick days by an average of 38% and their injured
days by 62% (Ibid).
Oldsmobile's Lansing, Michigan plant saw the
following results in the year after its alcoholic employees underwent
treatment: lost man-hours declined by 49%, health care benefits by 29%,
leaves by 56%, grievances by 78%, disciplinary problems by 63% and accidents
by 82% (Ibid).
While roughly 90% of the Fortune 500 companies
have established EAPs (TR Burke, "The Economic Impact of Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism," Public Health Reports, Vol. 103, No. 6, Nov/Dec 1988),
p. 567), this percentage is much lower among small companies. Only 9%
of businesses with fewer than 50 employees have EAP programs. 90% of the
U.S. businesses fall into this category (USDL, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Report 760: Survey of Employer Anti-drug Programs, 1/89, p. 2).
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