No More Honey Mooners

August, 1990

Maybe you've seen the Government's figure: Drug abuse costs us 33 billion dollars annually in lost productivity. Pretty sinister, eh? But a new study says there is an even more imposing threat to the workplace: marriage.The Ohio Psychological Association conducted a survey in which 55 small-business managers rated the influence of various personal problems on the productivity of their workers. Twenty-two percent said drug abuse had a "very negative impact on productivity." OK, no surpr...