Managing Substance Use in the Workplace
When substance use affects your workforce, the cost shows up in health plans, absenteeism, and performance. A virtual addiction clinic gives employees real support while helping your organization stay on course.
What does substance use management look like?
Substance use management focuses on individualized care that helps guide substance use toward healthier, sustainable outcomes. Designed to be affordable, accessible, and stigma-free, this model extends beyond traditional programs to support employees in meaningful, long-term progress.
Better employee health, lower overall care costs
Significant financial impact
Control healthcare expenses, limit missed workdays and drive stronger performance organization-wide. Benefits that compound.
Care That's Always Within Reach
Guide your people toward better days with a fully virtual care experience. DevotedDOc offers continuous access, 24/7, all year long—so help is never far away.
How Common Is Substance Use in Today's Workforce?
46M
U.S. adults have a substance use disorder
About 30 million of them are employed
9%
of full-time U.S. workers have substance use disorder
meet the criteria for substance use disorder each year
9.3%
of full-time U.S. workers are with alcohol use disorder
account for 14.1% of all workplace absences and an estimated 232 million missed workdays per year
70%
of adults with substance use disorder are employed
meaning most people struggling with addiction are at work, not outside the labor force
40%
increase from 2021 to 2024 in commercially insured people diagnosed with opioid use disorder
underscoring how fast this is growing inside "regular" employer plans.
The Hidden Crisis in Your Workforce
Most employees who are struggling with alcohol or drug use are still showing up to work every day. National surveys estimate that tens of millions of U.S. adults live with a substance use disorder, and the majority of them are employed. For employers, that shows up as quiet absences, near-miss safety events, rising health claims, and high-value people suddenly “burning out” or disappearing from the workforce.
Achieve Outcomes that Move Lives Forward
Instead of losing skilled employees to termination, disability, or overdose, DevotedDOc gives your workforce board-led, evidence-based addiction treatment at their fingertips — confidential, virtual, and designed so people can get help before they lose their job.
Substance Use is a Workforce Reality
Each untreated case of opioid use disorder can cost the economy hundreds of thousands of dollars in healthcare and productivity losses.
How does DevotedDOc work?
Ready for a Better Experience?
Support your people. Strengthen your organization.
Frequently Asked Questions
DevotedDOc provides direct, physician-led virtual care with real clinical follow-through—rather than referrals that rely on employees to navigate treatment on their own.