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August 1991

Drug and alcohol use at work

Philip Gleason, Jonathan Veum, Michael Pergamit

Data from the 1984 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth reveal that drug and alcohol use in the workplace is more common among men than women and among blue-collar than white-collar workers. This article examines the prevalence of drug and alcohol use on the job.

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