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Concerned About Substance Use Among Your Workforce? Check Out Our Upcoming Events

In 2020, there was a 700% increase in the demand for addiction services in Indiana. This has had a significant impact on our employers and workforce. Building and implementing workplace culture, policies and best practices that support employees with substance use disorders and other mental health concerns is good for our Hoosier workforce and helps boost Indiana’s economic recovery. [...]

2021-07-09T11:54:22-04:00July 9th, 2021|

An Inside Look at the Indiana State Museum’s Opioid Crisis Exhibit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2BNsHrvGGQ The Indiana State Museum recently opened its exhibit, "FIX: Heartbreak and Hope Inside Our Opioid Crisis." This program will run through August 1. The Indiana Chamber and the Wellness Council of Indiana have made it a priority to tackle substance abuse in the workplace with our Indiana Workforce Recovery effort. The mission of the initiative is to empower [...]

2021-04-26T09:33:43-04:00April 26th, 2021|

Employers Playing Bigger Role in Helping Workforce Battle Drug Dependency; RALI Awards New Grant to Indiana Workforce Recovery

(INDIANAPOLIS) – More employers are recognizing the important role they can play in assisting their workers who are battling drug dependency and misuse. That’s the message from Indiana Workforce Recovery, a partnership between the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, Wellness Council of Indiana (WCI) and Gov. Eric Holcomb’s administration to combat the state’s drug and opioid epidemic. Perhaps the most [...]

2019-12-09T10:11:42-05:00December 9th, 2019|

State Employer Opioid Strategy Series Kicks Off Next Month in South Bend

(INDIANAPOLIS) — South Bend area businesses have an opportunity to help their employees deal with substance misuse and learn prevention methods by attending a free program September 11. The session will also include legal guidance as well as optional naloxone training from the Indiana State Department of Health on how and when to use the opioid overdose reversal drug. [...]

2019-08-09T17:56:56-04:00August 6th, 2019|

3 Things You Need to Know About Employee Drug Use

By Adam Bartrom, guest author This area of the law reminds me of one of my favorite lines from the movie Fletch. While Fletch is impersonating a police officer (disclaimer: you should not do that), a teenager asks Fletch if he is going to jail for car theft. Fletch asks: “Why? Did you steal the car?” “I sure did,” says [...]

2018-10-30T13:34:17-04:00October 30th, 2018|

Bipartisan Efforts From Donnelly, Young, Brooks, Bucshon and Visclosky Take Next Steps

- On Wednesday, the Senate Agriculture Committee passed the 2018 Farm Bill with strong bipartisan support. It includes a number of provisions from Indiana’s senior senator, Joe Donnelly, who serves on the committee. Donnelly helped craft the bipartisan bill and spoke during the committee markup about Hoosier priorities for the bill. Donnelly’s provisions included in the bill would help [...]

2018-06-15T13:26:50-04:00June 15th, 2018|

A Look at What the New Worker’s Comp Drug Formulary Law Means for Indiana

A Look at What the New Worker’s Comp Drug Formulary Law Means for Indiana Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) is a very extensively used and adopted worker’s compensation medical treatment, return-to-work and drug formulary guideline. ODG is evidenced-based and has impressive data analytics to back up those guidelines. Approximately 100 physicians of all medical specialties active in worker’s comp make [...]

2018-04-27T13:17:24-04:00April 27th, 2018|

Opioid Recovery, Coal Tax Credit and More

• On Tuesday, Sen. Todd Young joined Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Doug Jones (D-Ala.), all members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, to introduce the Jobs Plus Recovery Act to incorporate job training into drug addiction recovery programs. The bipartisan legislation would establish a pilot program that gives individuals impacted by opioid addiction or [...]

2018-04-13T12:47:31-04:00April 13th, 2018|

Disappointments Overshadow a Few Victories in Health Care and Labor Relations

By Mike Ripley, vice president of health care policy and employment law Simply put, it was one of the Chamber’s biggest disappointments of the session: The General Assembly failing to implement reforms to reduce smoking in Indiana. We knew the landscape going in but felt something positive could occur. Since 2018 was a non-budget year, that meant no one [...]

2018-03-30T11:49:04-04:00March 30th, 2018|

Drug Formulary Bill for Worker’s Comp Passes House, Would Help Curb Opioid Supply; New Employer Assistance Drug Program Proposed in Health Committee, Amended Into Bill

Drug Formulary Bill for Worker’s Comp Passes House, Would Help Curb Opioid Supply Bill and Title: SB 369 – Workers Compensation Drug Formulary Author: Sen. Randy Head (R-Logansport) Summary: Except during a medical emergency, prohibits workers’ compensation and occupational disease compensation reimbursement for drugs specified in the Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) Workers’ Compensation Drug Formulary Appendix A published by [...]

2018-03-02T13:38:36-05:00March 2nd, 2018|