The Hartford: Substance Use and Mental Health -- Supporting Employees Without Stigma

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Over the past three years, employers across the U.S. have become increasingly concerned about substance misuse by their employees. For good reason: the numbers continue to climb.
 
More than 40 million Americans 12 and older have a substance use disorder, which is defined by an uncontrolled use of a substance despite harmful consequences, including alcohol, tobacco, prescription medications or other drugs.1 A staggering 107,600 people died from drug overdoses in 2021, the highest death toll on record, according to estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read more here.

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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: #EU The Euro is weak and the European climate is punishing. Simon Constable, Time Magazine. Edinburgh, Scotland 2/2

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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: #EU The Euro is weak and the European climate is punishing. Simon Constable, Time Magazine. Edinburgh, Scotland 1/2

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Time Magazine: What the Crash of the Euro Means for American Tourists

By SIMON CONSTABLE

A handful of American consumers–especially tourists visiting Europe–stand to benefit from the U.S. dollar’s recent strengthening against the euro, but the wider impact on the U.S. economy may not be as positive.

The euro, the single currency of much of the European Union, has been tumbling over the last year-and-a-half. Following a 20% decline in the European currency against the greenback since the beginning of last year, one dollar buys roughly one euro for the first time in two decades. Read more here.

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Video: Two MPs Kicked Out of the House of Commons

 

CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: #Markets Commodities drive inflation on both sides of the Atlantic, Chaos in Parliament

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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: #Scotland: #UK PM Johnson exits slowly; & What is to be done about COLA?

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