Southern Health Care Resources

Southern Health Care Resources is a unique company that provides specialized services to businesses and individuals that has been successfully operarting for more than 15 years.

The health care field is one of the fastest-growing industries in the country. The part of the problem is that the quality of services are still lacking greatly. We can help find very professional valuable services in the health care arena to fit many needs, both for individuals as well as from a business-to-business standpoint.

While we are rooted in the deep south and provide many in-person services to the Atlanta metropolitan area, we are not limited to just Georgia or the southeast. Many of our services are offered nationwide.

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Most of the nation’s approximately 16.4 million current illicit drug users and approximately 15 million heavy alcohol users hold full-time jobs, according to a new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

The study, Worker Substance Use and Workplace Policies and Programs, shows that substance use can pose significant risks to workers’ health and productivity. The report also says that workers who use illicit drugs are less likely than nonusers to be employed by companies that have drug or alcohol testing policies and programs.

"Substance abuse is a serious problem for the health, wellbeing and productivity of everyone in the workplace," said SAMHSA Administrator Terry Cline, Ph.D. "One important way SAMHSA is addressing this public health risk is with a helpline for employees and businesses dealing with problems related to substance abuse. (You may also call us toll-free at 1-877-421-9659) The helpline provides advice on programs that can make a dramatic difference to everyone in the workplace – programs such as substance abuse policy development, supervisor and employee substance abuse education, employee assistance, and drug testing."

Director of National Drug Control Policy John Walters said, "Employees who use drugs miss work more often, are less healthy, and are more prone to harming themselves and others in the workplace. We hope that employers will take note of this report and consider implementing workplace drug testing policies that can help prevent drug use before it starts, help identify drug-using employees who need drug treatment services and also reduce employers’ liability from drug-related workplace accidents."

The report says the highest rates of current illicit drug use were among food service workers (17.4 percent) and construction workers (15.1 percent). Highest rates of current heavy alcohol use were found among construction, mining, excavation and drilling workers (17.8 percent), and installation, maintenance, and repair workers (14.7 percent).

Illicit drug use and heavy alcohol use are associated with higher levels of absenteeism and frequent job changes, the report said. For example, nearly twice as many current illicit drug users skipped one or more days of work in the past month compared with workers who did not abuse drugs. Drug users were also far more likely to report missing two or more work days in the past month due to illness or injury compared with workers who did not abuse drugs.

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to be the 'safety net' for approving prescription drugs before allowing phramaceutical companies to market them to consumers and doctors. What has happened over the years is that it has seemingly joined forces with the pharmaceutical industry by knowingly allowing harmful drugs with flawed drug safety trials to be given to millions of people for billions of dollars in profits.

Vioxx was not a fluke, it's just one that was correctly uncovered. Purdue recently paid out nearly $700 million in fraud chargest for knowingly altering information about its highly addictive painkiller Oxycontin. Lilly withheld information for well over a decade about the harmful side effects of antidepressant Prozac. Lilly is also coming under fire for promoting off-lable use of the anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa even though they had evidence that it caused diabetes. And just this May, a new warning has been issued about the diabetes drug Avandia made by GlaxoSmithKline, stating that there is evidence that the drug creates an increased risk for heart attacks.

The list of serious corruption to the tune of billions of dollars and thousands of lives could go on and on, but average Americans continue to believe the commercials they see and the doctors they visit, not knowing that those doctors have been given false information about the drugs to begin with.

We're not trying to say that some drugs aren't necessary or that others can be useful in certain situations, but before you eagerly pay $100 for your next month's prescription refill, you might want to check out the news stories and side effects, as well as whether or not you should get a second opinion from a different doctor to see if there is a healthier alternative to taking a drug.