Work and the Consumption of Psychoactive Substances: Quebec Unions
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recent changes in the labor market tied to the flexible organization of work are creating performance and excellence norms that can be hard to resist. In this context, psychoactive substance uses in regard to work are changing; they are now sometimes a means for workers to maintain exceptional performance, or a way to face the suffering tied to the impossibility of achieving such performance levels. This article is mainly based on a doctoral thesis that studied Quebec unions’ initiatives toward preventing mental health problems in the workplace. It has a dual objective. First, the article aims to demonstrate the ties between work organizations and the rise in problematic consumption of psychoactive substances (such as drugs or alcohol) in the workforce. These problems can be understood as the result of a defensive strategy, as defined by the psychodynamic of work, deployed in order to face the imperatives of a hyperflexible work organization. Second, the article describes the Quebec union initiative of peer assistance programs in order to discuss the role of peers in the prevention of workplace mental health problems, including substance abuse and misuse.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it