Workdrugfree Oregon

A year-long effort by Workdrugfree in facilitating a statewide business leaders group culminated Jan. 9, 2006 with adoption of its Oregon Business Plan (OBP) initiative at the Oregon Leadership Summit. The Workdrugfree Oregon initiative was launched as part of OBP’s Meet Targeted Workforce Needs of Industry initiative.

The effort was precipitated by the increasing difficulty of Oregon businesses in finding workers who can pass a pre-employment drug test. Its overall goal is to significantly increase the number of drugfree workplaces in Oregon through strategies to educate and mobilize the business community, prioritize substance abuse prevention in Oregon’s public workforce system, and elevate the importance of student preparation for drugfree workplaces. Download OBP White Paper

WHAT’S NEW

SAMHSA has released a new Drug-Free Workplace Kit that is available online, in PDF, and hard copy. The purpose of this Drug-Gree Workplace Kit is to provide public and private workplaces, from small to large and from local to global, with credible, authoritative, evidence-based information, resources, and tools for producing and maintaining drug-free workplace policies and programs. To order up to five printed copies, call 877-726-4727 or access and download online.

Drug, booze abuse rising in workplaces, Roseburg News Review, March 17, 2008.

Medford chamber hosts Economic Impact of Substance Abuse in Oregon Employer Breakfast Forum, May 20, 2008. Download flyer.

The Economic Impact of Substance Abuse: A Conference for Policymakers, 8:30am - 4:30pm, January 16, 2008, Kaiser Town Hall, Portland. Download The Economic Costs of Alcohol & Drug Abuse in Oregon in 2006 by ECONorthwest and Medical Marijuana: The Need for a Legislative Solution by Paula Barran, Barran Liebman. Download Conference Statistics or View conference photos.

Pacific Power funding will support WDFO pilot sites and Jan. 16 conference to raise awareness of economic impact of substance abuse. Download the press release.