Untreated mental illness costs American companies over 170 billion dollars every year in lost workdays, reduced productivity, and direct healthcare costs. However, prevention and early-intervention programs are easily integrated into existing health and wellness programs within any organization.

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Alcohol

• Alcohol costs American businesses $134 billion in productivity losses each year

• For every 100 employees, a company likely spends $26,576 on alcohol-related healthcare

• In a recent JAMA study, brief interventions were shown to:

  .         Decrease overall healthcare costs by $712 per person

  .         Decrease the number of ER visits by 20%

  .         Decrease the number of inpatient bed days by 37%

• People with untreated alcoholism say:

  .         They call in sick an average of 15 days per year, almost twice as often as people who don't have drinking problems.

  .         Their job productivity is reduced 13 days each year, almost five days more than people who don't have drinking problems.  Data courtesy of Ensuring Solutions, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC 2003.

Depression, Mood and Anxiety Disorders

• A recent JAMA article revealed the economic burden of depression in the workplace to be most costly due to "presenteeism". Depressed workers on the job cost employers 44.1 billion dollars annually in lost productivity. (JAMA, June 18, 2003 - Vol. 289 No. 23 pp 3135-3144)
• 1 in 20 of your employees on average are depressed right now. (Source: www.nimh.nih.gov)
• A recent Business and Health article revealed a cost savings of $40,000 by one US business in the first 10 months of a depression screening and education program. (Source: www.businessandhealth.com)

Eating Disorders

• Almost 50% of people with eating disorders meet the criteria for depression. (Mortality in Anorexia Nervosa. American Journal of Psychiatry, 1995; 152 (7): 1073-4.)
• Up to 24 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder in the U.S. The Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders, "Eating Disorders 101 Guide: A Summary of Issues, Statistics and Resources," 2003.
• Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 152 (7), July 1995, p. 1073-74, Sullivan Patrick F.