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According to a press release from USA Mobile Drug Testing, small businesses are at an additional risk for hiring employees who may have drug and alcohol problems. A lot of small businesses lack the necessities for drug testing, such as policies and testing procedures. Jeff Sardisco, the COO of USA Mobile Drug Testing stated the [...]
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24 Nov 2011Last month police in Southern Australia participated in the month long Operation Safe October blitz. They discovered an astonishing number of increased drugged drivers, and believe this might result in more accidents during this years’ holiday season. During the blitz, police had more than 4300 traffic offensives. They performed 2394 drug tests, in which 72 [...]
Three football players for Louisiana State University have been suspended for the next game, possibly even longer. Positive drug tests revealed that running back Spencer Ware and corner backs Tyrann Mathieu and Tharold Simon used synthetic marijuana. This synthetic marijuana also known as K2, Spice, and Black Mamba has been the rise for the past [...]
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25 Oct 2011Within this last month there have been a total of 37 arrests due to drug charges at a Boeing aircraft plant. The Boeing employees were arrested and accused of purchasing or selling painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs at a plant in Philadelphia. Officials researched the plant for a time frame of four years using undercover investigations [...]
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14 Oct 2011One drug out there that is dangerously on the rise and a deadly killer is methamphetamine, otherwise known as meth. The most common users are teenagers and young people. Unfortunately statics in 2000 have shown that 1.3% of eighth grade students, 1.5% of tenth graders and 1.5% of high school seniors have used meth. Studies [...]
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4 Oct 2011According to theantidrug.com new research has shown serious consequences of teen use of marijuana and the effects on their mental health. The marijuana that teens are smoking now a days is highly potent. The younger a user abuses marijuana has serious effects on the critical brain development years. Evidence indicates that marijuana changes the mental [...]
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27 Sep 2011According to the Washington Examiner, D.C. has the highest rates of drug and alcohol abuse across the nation. The vast opportunity to obtain drugs, high stress levels and issues of abusers not seeking treatment have contributed to this high rate. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced that 11.3 percent of people [...]
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26 Sep 2011According to The Wall Street Journal an expanding amount of colleges are establishing recovery programs for students. Texas Tech University in Lubbock is the leader of these programs since they were the first university to begin a recovery program. Texas Tech features 12-step courses, classes on relapse deterrence, chances for academic scholarships and a peaceful [...]
A new study performed by a research team from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has found that more than one in five teens who have been prescribed a controlled medication substance such as Oxycodone (for pain) or Ritalin (to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) are abusing the drugs. Researchers from the study have [...]
In today’s society the presence of drugs is everywhere, especially for high school students. It doesn’t matter what group a student hangs out with- the athletes, honor students, average and troubled students- at some point they will be exposed to dangerous drugs. According to studies conducted in America’s school system, 54% of high school seniors [...]
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