Wellness & Well-being Highlights September 25

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of September 25, 2023

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics on how some restaurants are taking an active role in training their workers to administer Narcan to how climate change (i.e., recent heatwaves) has impacted workers around the world to what the UAW strike has to do with equality and the middle class. Today, I wish to shed some light on the issue of Veterans and suicide. As Suicide Prevention Month soon comes to a close, we would be remiss by not acknowledging that ~17 Vets die by suicide EACH day in this country. In fact, their deaths equate to nearly double the rate with the adult population per 100,000 (31.7 vs 16.1, respectively). Sadly, from 2001 to 2020, the unadjusted suicide rate for Vets rose in every age group:

◾ Age 18-34: up 95% (highest rate)

◾ Ages 35-54: up 13%

◾ Ages 55-74: up 58% (highest number)

◾ 75 and older: up 21%

We—including the VCL (Veterans Crisis Line)—can and should do better by our brothers and sisters who bravely & proudly served this country!

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2023/09/21/veteran-suicide-rate-2023-decreases/70909134007/

Vets & Suicide (1)

Vets & Suicide (2)

OSHA / Employers preventing suicide (Eng & Span)

Restaurants / Overdoses / Narcan

Opioids 4^th Wave & USA

Treating pain w/o Opioids?