Sound management practices benefit all staff and improve overall productivity and morale—company features that ultimately result in increased profitability and success. These strategies require little or no modification to foster success for people in recovery. By adopting the following workplace practices, employers can help ensure that individuals in recovery experience a smooth transition into their workplace.

Drug testing, such as through urinalysis, provides an objective or impartial measure of drug use. This objective measure stands in contrast to self-report measures of drug use, in which individuals are asked to describe subjectively their alcohol- or drug-using behaviors.

Physical, emotional and behavioral signs of addiction.

Once an addiction is developed, it will always have to be addressed. An addict may manage to stop using alcohol or other drugs for significant periods of time, but the disease typically does not disappear. Rather, it goes into remission. Should “normal” drug use be attempted, “out of control” use will return rapidly.