{"id":18059,"date":"2024-10-12T19:03:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T18:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=18059"},"modified":"2024-11-26T20:19:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T19:19:42","slug":"employees-who-use-and-abuse-marijuana-miss-more-work-new-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2024\/10\/employees-who-use-and-abuse-marijuana-miss-more-work-new-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees who use and abuse marijuana miss more work, new study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BY<\/span> Lindsey Leake<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n
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While the modern marijuana consumer may be shedding that lazy stoner stereotype<\/a>, new research shows that employees who use and abuse the drug are more likely to miss work.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The findings were published Monday in the\u00a0American Journal of Preventive Medicine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For the study, researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0New York University Grossman School of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0analyzed data from the\u00a02021\u201322 National Survey on Drug Use and Health<\/a>\u00a0on 46,500 adults employed full-time in the U.S. Recent and\u00a0frequent cannabis use<\/a>, as well as cannabis use disorder (CUD), they found, was associated with greater workplace absenteeism.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Work absences included days missed due to illness or injury in addition to skipped days when employees \u201cjust didn\u2019t want to be there.\u201d Respondents were a majority or plurality white (62%), male (57%), ages 35 to 49 (35%), married (52%), had at least a college degree (42%), and had an annual household income exceeding $75,000 (55%). About 16% of employees had reported\u00a0using cannabis within the last month<\/a>, with about 7% of whom meeting CUD criteria (mild: 4%; moderate: 2%; severe: 1%).<\/p>\n

People who said they had never used cannabis missed an average 0.95 days of work in the past 30 days due to illness\/injury and skipped 0.28 days. Cannabis users, by comparison, recorded the following absences:<\/p>\n