Managerial Decision-Making and Substance Abuse

According to the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) (2002), among all adult Americans, there are 11.4 million illicit drug uses who admit to having used drugs at least once a month. Since 1992, CWLA (2002) states that illicit drug use has increased 13.3 percent. Among young adults age 18 to 20, 20 percent report using illicit drugs at least once per month -- and members of this age cohort exhibit the highest rate of drug use for any age group. Further, as Delva, Neumark, Furr, and Anthony (2000) have commented, substance abuse disorders (e.g., dependency or abuse) are problems that cut across all gender, racial, ethnic, geographic and socioeconomic lines.

It is therefore the purpose of this report to examine the literature on substance abuse disorders and to identify the prevalence, effects, causes, types, and treatments associated with the problem from a managerial perspective; the legal, political, social, and economic issues and their consequences as manifested in the context of the business arena and managerial decision-making are the focus of the report. The problem is of significance in that it is also associated with poverty, high rates of unemployment and illnesses both physical and psychological, crime, child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and other social ills that confront managers, social workers and other caregivers and policy makers (Sun, 2000).

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ug-Free Workplace Act (1988) The Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 functions as one of the legal underpinnings for corporate policy vis-a-vis substance abuse issues, including drug-testing of employees believed to have a substance abuse problem (Ivancevich, 1998). The act, passed by a concerned Congress, gives drug testing a legal imprimatur. The act directly impacts upon any and all firms that work under federal contracts or receive federal funds in the form of grants. Meiners, Ringleb and Edwards (1994) described the primary requirements of this act as follows noting that employers must: . Publish and distribute a statement notifying employees that the use, distribution and/or possession of drugs in the workplace is prohibited; . Specify what actions will be taken against employees who violate the policy (ranging from completion of a rehabilitation program to dismissal); . Establish a drug-free awareness program, and make a serious effort to make it work; . Notify employee that, as a condition of employment, the employer must be notified of any drug-related convictions that occur in the workplace; the employer must notify the federal government of such information. The act impacts primarily on those for
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