Workshop –  Friday, October 20 - 1:00pm – 3:00pm

Opioids and The Workplace

Opioid abuse cost employers 16.3 Billion nationally in 2013 due to reduced productivity and increased disability. Another $14 billion is absorbed by private health insurers, according to a 2016 Center for Disease Control Prevention study. Employers should be worried because they are unprepared. When people are addicted, they don’t come to work…

Workshop Outline:

I.       “Opioid Dependence in the Workplace”- What is it?

II.       “What are we NOT talking about?”- Employer Concerns

III.       “What do the numbers tell us?”-Risk Factors

IV.       “Uh oh”- When a legitimate injury has crossed over into addiction on prescription opioids

V.       “Workplace Solutions”- Employers can help

Learning Objectives include:

-       An enhanced overview of Opioid Dependence

-       Ability to identify risk factors, warning signs/symptoms and understand substance use challenge in the workplace

-       Employers will be able to recognize their role in our leading cause of accidental death for Americans under 50, Opioid Addiction

-       Depart the workshop with action-ables that can be implemented upon return to offices

Jamelia Hand Chief Executive Officer Vantage Clinical Consulting LLC

About the Speaker:

Jamelia Hand MHS, CADC, MISAI is the owner and principal consultant of Vantage Clinical Consulting LLC where she provides strategic direction and training to healthcare organizations on Opioid Addiction topics. She is a professor, author, and treatment advocate for Addiction and Recovery issues. She serves as an Advisory Board member for Governors State University's Addictions Studies Program, Board member of the Illinois Certification Board, Board member for NAADAC and she's the President of the Governors State University Addiction Studies Alumni Club. She speaks passionately to many family groups, treatment centers and corporate organizations. Her message always includes that Substance Use Disorder is a family disease and should be treated as such. Her advocacy recently received the attention of the IL House of Representatives and she was awarded for her advocacy in Opioid Overdose. For almost 20 years, she has taken great pride in being knowledgeable about resources to support recovery and has enjoyed being able to translate that excitement to anyone who will listen, especially students who are interested in working in the field of addictions or treatment providers who are experiencing burnout.