STAT November 9, 2023
The Biden administration on Thursday issued a call to action for the nation’s employers to hire, train, and retain people in recovery from addiction.
Recovery-Ready Workplace, as the new program is known, includes a new toolkit for employers and promotes a model state law that would create incentives for businesses to hire people in recovery and become certified as “recovery-friendly” workplaces.
More broadly, it takes aim at the discrimination people with addiction often face when seeking work. The White House also cast the initiative as a win-win — beyond helping people in recovery achieve stability, it could help businesses’ bottom lines.
“There are more than 20 million Americans living in recovery today,” Rahul Gupta, the director of the White House...
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