The WV Prevention Resource Center has released its latest cost of substance abuse report. “The Financial Burden of Substance Abuse in West Virginia: The Workforce System” is now available online. Although drug and alcohol abuse seriously impact the workforce system in terms of productivity, efficiency, and other factors, data illuminating those costs have yet to be systematically collected. The present report, therefore, limits its scope to the cost of worker absenteeism related to drug and alcohol abuse. Worker absenteeism is defined as the extra days substance using workers are absent compared to non-users. This report estimates that drug and alcohol abuse-related worker absenteeism costs the state over $12 million a year.
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