Leadership Stress and Substance Abuse

Today we live in competitive and stressful world. We want to be good employees, good leaders and we want to manage everything, but sometimes the stress gets to us and we all react to stress in different ways. Some of go to the gym, some of us go on vacation and some of us reach for a glass or two. A recent Gallup Poll Study shows that the higher the income and the education the more likely you are to drink alcohol and least 20% of those who do have a real problem. Studies are also showing a rapid increase in alcoholism among executive women. As we all try to keep up with the social and customer dinners, trade shows and travel we have in business, we could be developing a problem we do not realize. A problem that could affect our work and our families. In this series, we talk with Marc Treitler, a successful executive and lawyer, who not only battled the disease of alcoholism, but with the support of his family beat it. His observations and his story are a lesson for all of us.