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Wellness & Well-being Highlights February 10th

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Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of Feb 10, 2025

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog looks at the experiences of a handful of US Veterans who attended a psychedelic retreat for their PTSD—to which vice is more harmful: booze or weed—to which construction sectors may be winners or losers under the 2nd Trump administration. This week I would like to take this opportunity to examine Congressman Biggs’ (AZ) effort to repeal the Occupational Safety & Health Administration Act of 1970 calling to “nullify” it…thus, NOSHA.

 

While this may serve as a cute play on words, there is NOTHING cute about exposing workers to unsafe working conditions. Make no mistake, this law was actually established under a Republican administration. Then, as now, OSHA serves to protect workers (mainly) in the private sector. To suggest that this agency is part of so-called government bloat and/or is another example of government overreach, is nothing more than an attempt to deflect the real issue at hand: protecting workers vs corporate greed. Furthermore, it is a moot point to insinuate that states can do a better job of protecting their workers since nearly ½ of the states already have state-OSHA approved plans. Note: “The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 allows states to administer their own job safety and health programs, but they must meet the minimum federal requirements.” Simply put, if states seek to oversee job safety, they MUST do so in a manner that meets or exceeds the federal standard!

 

In closing, it never ceases to amaze me how elected officials claim to represent their constituents while ignoring historical facts. OSHA was created after a series of workplace disasters over 50 years ago. To this end, Congressman Biggs, how does ‘allowing the fox to guard the henhouse’ serve the needs of your state’s workers? As noted in the article linked below: “Without OSHA, many workers will be left vulnerable to unsafe conditions, and it will be the most vulnerable—low-income and minority workers—who will bear the brunt of dangerous rollbacks.”

 

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/republican-calls-scrap-workplace-safety-agency-2025932

 

USA: Wealthy & Unhappy

 

OH OD Deaths Declining

 

How Fentanyl Crosses US Borders

 

Trump / China / Opioids & Tariffs

 

China & Fentanyl

 

US Vets / PSTD / Psychedelic Retreat

 

Treatment & Relapsing

 

Addiction / Impact / Brain

 

Addiction & MH Pandemic

 

What is PT Sober?

 

Seniors & Hoarding

 

Is Aging a Disease?

 

MDMA & PTSD

 

More Harmful: Booze or Weed?

 

Illegal Cannabis & Consumers

 

Vaping Weed?

 

Dry January & Cannabis Drinks

 

MO / THC / Beverage Law?

 

Obesity Drugs & Compounding Pharmacies

 

More on Risky Online GLP-1s

 

FLU vs COVID?

 

Inhaling Microplastics

 

Spinal Stim Treatment

 

Vagus Nerve & Stim

 

Ozempic & Alzheimer’s

 

Construction / MH / App

 

Financial & Mental Health

 

Coping w/ Change

 

Steps for Surviving to Thriving

 

Wellness Perks in the Workplace

 

Parents & Burnout

 

ME / Bridges / Suicide Prevention

 

SD / Law / MH vs Guns

 

NFL / HoF / Possible CTE?

 

Update: Costco & Teamsters Strike

 

Strike @ Fort L Wood

 

Musk / German Policies / Tesla Workers

 

Amazon Leaves Quebec

 

Amazon / Whole Foods / NLRB

 

More on Whole Foods & NLRB

 

Academics / Exec Branch / Checks?

 

NLRB Firing + Trump = Lawsuit

 

FBI / Trump / Jan 6 Pardons

 

EO / Transgender / Sports

 

More on Trans-athlete Ban

 

Fed Employees / Trump / Deadline

 

US-AID / Trump / Facts

 

Cartels / Trump / Terrorism

 

More on Trump & Cartels

 

Trump & Ed Department

 

Musk / DOGE / Legal Boundaries?

 

JD Vance / Cardinal Dolan / Immigration

 

DEI / Chicago Casino / Financing

 

Construction Sectors & Trump (Winners)

 

Construction Sectors & Trump (Losers)

 

Construction Hiring Slows

 

From OSHA to NOSHA?

 

London / Construction / Declining Workforce

 

I-9 / Employers / Raids

 

MO & Min Wage Law?

 

MO / Social Services / Shaq

 

AI & Hiring

 

AI & Hallucinations

 

AI & Your Future Self

 

Career Catfishing & Office Ghosting

 

Making EAPs Effective

 

Goodwill / Prison / Training

 

401k in America

 

Update: AI Battle

 

NFL & DEI

 

High School NILs

 

Tuskegee Tribute

 

Upcoming webinars, etc.:

Sports Concussions (2/14)

 

Participative Ergonomics (2/26)

 

New Research on MH & Construction (3/25)

 

Painters & Exposure to Chemicals

 

College & Gen Z Students

 

STL Intl Institute’s Food Pantry

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact jgaal@moworks.org with related questions or comments.

February 10, 2025/by Missouri Works Initiative
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