Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)can be a valuable cost-saving tool for employers. EAPs help employees with alcohol, drug, family, or emotional problems. They also create health promotion strategies to teach employees about safe alcohol use and to prevent and identify alcohol problems. Overall, employees helped by an EAP report fewer substance use and mental health problems, fewer health symptoms, better job attendance and greater job satisfaction than other workers.
Strong employee assistance programs can motivate workers to seek help for alcohol problems and increase the effectiveness of alcohol treatment.
EAP-provided follow-up for alcohol treatment pays dividends for employees and employers alike.