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Managerial Decision-Making and Substance Abuse

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).

Defining substance abuse and dependency was undertaken by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. The following Figures present the APA (1994) diagnostic criteria for Substance Dependency and Substance Abuse.

Figure 1: Criteria for Substance Dependency

Definition: A maladaptive pattern of substance us, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by three or more of the following symptoms, occurring at any time in the same...

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