You Are Asked to Help Design an Employee Assistance Program

question 16

Multiple Choice

You are asked to help design an employee assistance program as part of a prevention program. What challenges do you face?

• A) Because as many as 70% of illicit drug users work regularly, the program will have too many employees clamoring to enter it.
• B) The physical health of employees has not deteriorated seriously, so employees will not be forthcoming in entering the program.
• C) Service programs like EAPs are labor intensive, expensive, underutilized, and focus on remediation rather than prevention.
• D) Service programs like EAPs are focused on prevention rather than remediation and therefore are underutilized.

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Definitions:

Antibody

A specific protein (immunoglobulin) that recognizes and binds to specific antigens; produced by plasma cells.

Antigen

Any molecule, usually a protein or large carbohydrate, that is specifically recognized as foreign by cells of the immune system.

Chronic Inflammation

A long-term inflammatory response that can result from failure to eliminate a cause of acute inflammation or an autoimmune response.

Prolonged Infections

Infections that persist for a longer period than usual, often due to the inability of the immune system to clear the pathogen.