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The Connecticut Department of Public Health’s Occupational Health Program is working on a special emphasis program to encourage employers to recognize and support employees with an Opioid Use Disorder or any type of substance abuse to seek treatment and recovery. 

 

In 2017, the Occupational Health Unit organized two full-day conferences (March 1, 2017 and October 4, 2017) with over 250 stakeholders and business leaders from labor, insurance, and medical communities.  The conferences helped attendees identify best-practices and innovative strategies to help employers and employees combat the opioid crisis with a new proactive approach to deal with substance use/abuse in their workplaces.

 

Employers, HR representatives, workers compensation specialists, collective bargaining representative/union officers, and physicians treating a current employee who are interested in learning more about these symposia, information can be found below.

 

Resources and Partnerships

 

For more information, please contact Deborah Pease at Deborah.Pease@ct.gov