General Impacts of Drugs in the Workplace
Here are some of the observable impacts of substance misuse in or affecting the workplace:
- Tardiness/Sleeping on the job
- After-effects of substance affecting performance such as hangover
- Poor decision making
- Loss of efficiency
- Theft
- Increased absenteeism
- Accidents
- Lower morale of co-workers
- Increased likelihood of trouble with co-workers and/or supervisors
- Preoccupation with obtaining and using drugs at work
- Interferes with attention and concentration
- Illegal activities at work - buying or selling drugs
- Higher employee turnover requiring the training of new employees
- Discipl...