Research and analysis

Drug and alcohol addiction, and obesity: effects on employment outcomes: claimants' views

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Part of: Research reports from 2010 onwards, Obesity and healthy eating, Employment, and Drug misuse and dependency
• Published: 4 April 2017

Research with claimants to inform Dame Carol Black's report 'Drug and alcohol addiction, and obesity: effects on employment outcomes'.

Documents

Views of claimants: qualitative findings of the Dame Carol Black review

Ref: ISBN 978 1 911003 60 1, RR937 PDF, 1.37MB, 63 pages

Views of claimants: qualitative findings of the Dame Carol Black review: summary

PDF, 349KB, 4 pages

Details

This report looks at the views of previous and existing benefit claimants who have experienced drug or alcohol dependence on their experiences of the labour market and the benefits and health systems. It also looks a the views of people working in services to help those individuals.

The research helps inform Dame Carol Black’s independent report ‘Drug and alcohol addiction, and obesity: effects on employment outcomes’. The findings helped her to consider

• the cost of long-term, yet treatable conditions, such as drug addiction, alcoholism and obesity, to society and taxpayers
• how best to support these individuals back into or to remain in work

Authors: Camille Aznar, Andy MacGregor and Lauren Porter (National Centre for Social Research)

Document information

Published: 4 April 2017

From: Department for Work and Pensions

Part of: Research reports from 2010 onwards Obesity and healthy eating Employment Drug misuse and dependency