Why Become a Recovery Friendly Workplace?
Recovery Friendly Workplaces encourages healthy and safe working environments where employers, employees, and communities can collaborate to create positive change, eliminate stigma, and support recovery. Click here for more information.
Benefits of Recovery Friendly Workplaces in NM
Benefits to Business
- Reduced Turnover
- Cost Savings for training and retaining employees
- Loyalty and empathy in the workplace for and by employees
- Increased production by reducing absenteeism
- Send a strong message to current and potential employees about the
- positive culture of your workplace
Benefits to NM Economy & Communities
- Reduced unemployment
- Reduced population depending on State Assistance
- Reduced crime that occurs to support drug and alcohol addiction
- Parent will be able to pay child support and be a positive influence on their children
Benefits to People with Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
- Employment path for people with SUD
- Transparency for the employee about their situation when they’re hired
- Recovery Support provided during work
- Self-confidence, self-esteem and hope for a better life restored
What Does Addiction Cost The Economy & Communities?
The CDC reports a drain on the American economy of $249 billion loss:
Healthcare
BILLION
Workplace
BILLION
Collisions
BILLION
Criminal Justice
BILLION
Statistics for NM Substance Abuse Disorder
When substance use affects the health of your organization, there’s a new direction in how to handle it. It’s called the Recovery Friendly Workplace initiative – and it can take your business to better morale, better bottom-line performance, and happier, healthier, loyal, long-term employees. Being a Recovery Friendly Workplace is good economic policy. It’s also good HR and healthcare policy.
Business Owner Panel
Volunteer for business owner panel to complete designing the Recovery Friendly Workplaces of New Mexico program