Reducing Substance Use and Improving Mental Health Among Construction Workers: An Interview With Chris Trahan Cain.

Construction workers, their unions, and the construction industry face important challenges in addressing substance use disorders and mental health issues. To examine these issues further, we spoke with Chris Trahan Cain, Executive Director of CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, a nonprofit organization that is affiliated with North America's Building Trades Unions and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. As the chair of the North America's Building Trades Unions opioid task force, she has been working with construction unions and employers to develop primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention methods to help combat the opioid epidemic, other substance use disorders and to improve worker mental health.