Take the Substance Use Management Quiz!

Substance use impacts nearly every workplace, affecting productivity, safety, and healthcare costs. In the evolving narrative of workplace health, substance use management (SUM) demands a bold reimagining and a new approach that prioritizes greater access, significant cost savings, and improved health outcomes.

Efforts to address substance use disorders (SUDs) have become a bigger priority for employee benefits teams. Over the last few years, there has been a push to integrate dedicated substance use treatment into employee health and wellness strategies with a shift toward a chronic disease management approach.

SUM reflects the modern paradigm of providing comprehensive, evidence-based services across a continuum from prevention to recovery support, tailored to individual needs rather than a one-size-fits-all model.

What does your organization need to provide SUM that supports your employees’ health, well-being, and healthier substance use? Take the Substance Use Management Quiz and find out.

1. What's top of mind when considering your organization’s substance use management (SUM)?

Helping employees get treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs)

Understanding the ROI of substance use management

Learning how SUM approaches work

2. What’s your main goal with SUM?

Providing a treatment program for employees who want to reduce their alcohol use or quit opioids

Creating a recovery-ready workplace

Making a business case for a SUM program

3. What’s a leading challenge in improving your SUM?

Learning about innovative SUM solutions

Learning how we can help employees control or eliminate their alcohol or opioid consumption

Understanding the actual cost of SUDs

4. How could a SUM program help your organization?

By facilitating open conversations about SUDs

By lowering healthcare costs related to SUDs

By reducing substance use and mental health issues

5. When it comes to implementing a SUM program, what’s your priority?

Providing confidential treatment without stigma or embarrassment

Offering employer support for employees who have substance use and alcohol issues

Ensuring the program achieves a significant ROI

6. How important is helping employees with problematic alcohol use?

It is most important

It is very important, but making a business case for a cost-effective SUM program is more important

It is very important, but I am also concerned about mental health issues surrounding SUDs

7. Where does understanding the hidden costs of SUDs rank on your list of objectives?

It is vital if it supports helping employees with alcohol or opioid-related problems

It is vital if it supports helping employees affected by substance use

It is most important, as it helps us validate the ROI of SUM

8. If you could spend an afternoon doing one of the following activities, which would it be?

Understanding the impact of a SUM program

Learning about treatments for problematic alcohol use in a manufacturing-led workforce

Learning about the advantages of ROI-validated SUM

9. What’s a significant risk factor of maintaining the status quo?

Our employees’ productivity and well-being will be adversely affected

Our most vulnerable employees will continue to have substance use and mental health challenges

Our company’s healthcare costs will continue to grow

10. What area of SUM would you like to learn more about?

How to help employees drink responsibly

Identifying and quantifying the hidden costs of SUDs

Why expanding benefits programs to include support for substance use and related mental health issues is vital