Off the bottle and back to work

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Off the bottle and back to work

Sep 03, 2008
By Marge Tubalkain-Trell

DESAUCED: The Estonian government is funding treatment and footing the bill for expenses for alcoholics in an attempt to reduce the number of alcohol abusers in the work force.

TALLINN - The labor office will offer treatment for alcoholism and pay most of the expenses in a bid to reduce alcohol abuse in the nation’s work force. According to the labor office’s experience, the need for such a program is obvious and pressing. “More and more job seekers in the labor office belong to some kind of risk group — at the moment, nearly 70 percent of them,” said Karin Andre, program leader for to The Baltic Times The number of people who have been unemployed for long periods o ...

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