Stress and personal problems can undermine employees` health, happiness, job satisfaction, work performance, and ultimately your company`s bottom line. Your organization needs an EAP . . .

. . . because of substance abuse:

• Up to 40% of industrial fatalities and 47 percent of industrial injuries can be linked to alcohol consumption and alcoholism. Source: "Management perspectives on Alcoholism," by M. Bernstein and J.J. Mahoney, published in Occupational Medicine (1989).

• 70% of adult illegal drug users are employed. Source: NIDA Capsules, National Institute on Drug Abuse, June 1990.

• A 1993 study estimated that the economic burden of depression in 1990 was $44 billion; 55 percent of that amount was attributed to workplace costs, including absenteeism and reductions in productivity. Source: Greenberg et al., Journal of Clinical Psychology, (1993).

• Violence in the workplace is caused by a variety of factors, including job stress, job-related conflict, layoffs and firings, alcohol and drug abuse, accessibility of weapons, and domestic problems carried over from the home. Source: Attorney General Janet Reno in a 1995 presentation to an EAPA conference entitled "Responding to Workplace Critical Incidents."

• Nearly three times as many employers offer childcare benefits today as in 1988. Source: Society for Human Resource Management (1992).

• "Not only are the elderly . . . increasing as a percentage of the population but also the eldest portion, those over 85, is increasing faster than any other segment." Source: William Benson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Aging at a 1996 conference on "The Aging of America: Issues and Answers."