“Alcohol and the Workplace” (Why you Need an EAP) Out of millions who hold full time employment in the United States, close to fifteen million are heavy drinkers of alcohol, exacting a high cost on work organizations, as employees who drink a lot are often absent from work, suffer from a lot of health problems,…

6 Best Practices for Managing Unhappy Employees Leading a team isn’t easy, and it requires specific skills that not everybody has. Even if you have these skills in spades, at some point, you’ll find yourself faced with the challenge of dealing with an unhappy employee. If you handle this well, you may be able to…

Urine drug testing model likely to rollout nationwide This week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held a hearing to address reimbursement policies for various lab services, including urine drug testing. Andrea G. Barthwell, MD, FASAM, who manages Two Dreams Treatment Centers and is a consultant to the laboratory industry, provided testimony to…

Synthetic Marijuana Overdoses in the Lehigh Valley: What you need to know Emergency departments at Lehigh Valley hospitals are seeing a rash of overdoses among synthetic marijuana users. Dr. Kenneth Katz, a medical toxicologist with the Lehigh Valley Health Network, has called the increase of overdoses in the past two weeks “monumental.” Synthetic marijuana is…