Managing people with addictions

An organization's main motive is to earn profit and to satisfy their customer's requirements which can be only possible if their employees work in sync and with all of their efforts.

But nowadays organizations are facing a difficulty of drug abuse and  alcohol abuse by the workers in the workplace which is directly affecting their ability to work in an organization, some symptoms of the employees that are under the influence of drugs and alcohol are:

• Absenteeism, particularly absences without notification, or excessive use of sick days.
• Frequent disappearances from the work site; long, unexplained absences; improbable excuses.
• Unreliability in keeping appointments and meeting deadlines. etc.

Above given symptoms can be recognized by the employers and then some suitable actions can be taken against such users of the drug so that it doesn't affect  the overall working environment or productivity of others in an organization, 

some of the actions that can be taken by the employers are:

•  Leave for Treatment of Substance Abuse
• a return-to-work agreement—instead of termination, etc

sometimes an employee may not be under any substance abuse but still, he/she may be not performing well in an organization such circumstances should not be linked to the substance abuse, such situations can be only identified with a proper face to face discussion with the employee.

once situations are identified and proper actions are taken a healthy work environment can be achieved.

reference:

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/toolkits/pages/personswithaddictions.aspx