"We are looking for an escape from fatigue": the worrying explosion of drug use in the workplace
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SURVEY - Cannabis, cocaine, heroin, LSD... The use of illicit substances in the workplace is increasingly widespread. Whether it's to keep up or as a group effect, the reasons are numerous. Faced with this phenomenon, employers are on the front lines.
"Eight joints a day." That's what Romain*, 33, consumed for ten years. " One in the morning before going to work, one at lunch, and the rest in the evening," explains the network technician. Little by little, his professional life was derailing: "Repeated delays, inability to make decisions, decreased concentration... My situation was becoming worrying." Romain is not an isolated case. The phenomenon of drug use at work, more prevalent among men than women, is exploding: in eight years, alcohol and drug use at work has jumped 107% according to an Ithylo study, with a 13-fold increase in positive cases for cocaine.
" It's almost becoming the norm," notes Jean-Claude Delgènes, founding president of the Technologia group, which specializes in occupational risk prevention. He cites, alarmed, the case of a deputy director in a consulting firm who showed his subordinates how to order LSD online to "unleash their brains."
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