There is a flip side, even though it is not a good one. A substance abuser could experience increased dry mouth, stomach ailments, ulcers, heart rate, blood pressure, heart disease and cancer. The workplace is not a safe place to be around drug users. They add up to trouble for everyone involved, not just the users. They also put coworkers and employers at risk.
Effective treatment is the answer.
While recovery can be a long and difficult process, it is only the solution. Be it alcohol, nicotine, marijuana or cocaine, abusers of these substances should take advantage when the opportunity of treatment presents itself. Become part of the solution, not the problem. Marion General Hospital welcomes new employees Sarah Myers, Shawn Martin, Tabatha Herrera, April Jordan, Michael Clester, Tanda Garrett, Charles Riffil and Gretchen O Banion. C.S. FNP Health experts blame the increasing number of American children diagnosed with Type II diabetes on burgeoning rates of obesity among children and adolescents during the past three decades.