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INFORMATION ABOUT AL-ANON AND ALATEEN FOR PROFESSIONALS
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- For the Business Community
- For Physicians and the Health Care
Community
- For Law and Law Enforcement Professionals
- For Mental Health Personnel
- For Clergy and Spiritual Leaders
- For Educators
- Information for Professionals from AL-ANON World
Service
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FOR THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY |
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Al-Anon is for anyone whose life has been affected
by a problem drinker, including a co-worker.
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Al-Anon
members will come and speak at your company.
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Al-Anon
has a Professional's Resource Kit (K-26)
which
contains information relevant to industry.
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According to a national survey released by the
Bureau of National Affairs, alcoholism and drug abuse cost
American businesses more than $39 billion a year in lost
productivity. Accidents related to alcohol and drug abuse, the
survey found, were responsible for losses of an additional $81
billion. In a Gallup poll on alcohol abuse in America, 81 % of
the respondents identified alcohol abuse as a national
problem. In fact, one-third of those respondents reported that
drinking causes problems in their own families. Those figures
paint a vivid picture of the magnitude of the disease of
alcoholism and its costly effect on the business community.
Clearly, it is cost-effective for the business sector to
identify alcoholism as a family disease. Using Al-Anon as a
major resource can provide help for those affected by a
problem drinker.
Here's what Paul Sherman, Ph.D., an
alcoholism consultant to the business community, says about
it: "Having an alcoholic spouse can have a more
devastating effect on the performance of an executive than if
the executive himself is the alcoholic...There will be times
when the performance of an alcoholic executive is not visibly
impaired by the disease. The constant preoccupation about an
alcoholic spouse and worry about what might be going on at
home, however, will affect the executive on a continuous
basis." At many companies throughout the country, Al-Anon
members meet during lunch hour. At these workday meetings,
members share their experience, strength and hope with each
other. The affected member receives comfort and support and
the employer gets a more productive employee.
These materials are adapted and reprinted with permission of Al-Anon Family
Group Headquarters, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA
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