Regardless of the often-misinformed idea that the opioid epidemic is nothing more than media fear mongering, the fact of the matter is that overdoses have become such major part of the United States that it is actually having an impact on our national life expectancy. With over 70,000 people dying due to overdoses in 2017,…

When an opioid addiction strikes someone’s home, the entire focus, rightfully so, goes toward the addict themself and their individual substance use disorder. However, there is another side of the opioid epidemic that most of us probably haven’t put much thought into: addiction makes things pretty difficult for employers. In fact, the number of people…