Awareness of Workplace Substance Use Policies and Programs

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Highlights:

• Among full-time workers aged 18 to 49 in 2000, those in administrative support occupations were more likely than workers in other occupations to be aware of written workplace policies about employee substance use.

• Workers in the transportation, communication, and other public utilities industries were more likely than workers in other industries to be aware of substance use testing at their workplaces.

• About 53 percent of workers were aware of substance use employee assistance programs (EAP) at their workplaces.

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This Short Report, The NHSDA Report:   Awareness of Workplace Substance Use Policies and Programs, is based on SAMHSA's  National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), now called the  National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).  The survey is conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse and for selected mental health measures in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.   SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug use and for selected mental health measures by State.