If you think drug addiction isn’t a problem in your workplace, you’re wrong

Catherine Forbes photographed at Genfoot's factory in Littleton, New Hampshire on July 20, 2023. (Credit: Photograph by Tony Luong)

When a colleague on the warehouse floor of Hypertherm Associates, a New Hampshire–based manufacturer of industrial cutting tools and software, made a comment about “junkies” and complained about the public expense involved in saving them, Jamie Green knew it was her moment to speak up.

“I’m in recovery,” she told him, then asked a pointed question: “Do you think my life is worth saving?”