Most employers plan to highlight behavioral and mental health in the future, but they will need to address opioid abuse and suicide to succeed.
- Seventy percent of employers are either currently addressing or plan to address behavioral health over the next few years, according to a recent survey from Willis Towers Watson, but many of these initiatives fail to focus strongly on opioid abuse and suicide prevention.
Programs that do not offer enough support for employees at risk of opioid abuse or suicide are leaving huge gaps around two of the nation’s most impactful public health concerns, said the report.
Researchers surveyed 535 US employers to better understand current and future trends in mental healthcare. The results showed that although most employers are focusing on mental and behavioral health, just 22 percent said they currently have or plan to implement programs that address opioid use and suicide prevention in 2019.
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