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In: Substance Abuse
10 May 2011Teen drug abuse is a terrifying topic for parents. Try as they may to talk to their kids about the dangers of drugs, all too often peer pressure simply wins out over obedience and common sense. A national survey called “Monitoring the Future” offers an interesting snapshot of teen drug abuse. Surveys are conducted separately [...]
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5 May 2011Cigarettes are a legal drug, one that used to be considered “hip” or cool to abuse. But over the past two or so decades, public opinion has definitely turned. Smoking, by most social standards, is thought of as a bad habit with negative health risks for smokers (and some argue second-hand smokers as well). There [...]
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2 May 2011The cost of employees using drugs is far greater than one might think at first thought. Perhaps this prospect of associated costs of employee drug use is demurred by the fact that many employers subject their employees to random drug testing and pre-employment drug screening. However, this, contrary to popular belief, does not cause many [...]
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27 Apr 2011Drug testing in schools has been presented with a wide variety of different legality issues over the years gone by. Perhaps the most prominent one, and what many consider to be the legality issue that set the precedence for many years to come, took place in June of 1995. This occurred when the Supreme Court [...]
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21 Apr 2011The National Institute on Drug Abuse states that more than 15 million people have used prescription drugs for non-medicinal purposes. A recent study claims that 1 in 10 high school students have used Vicodin specifically to get high. With these numbers on the rise, more questions are emerging about whether or not Vicodin can be [...]
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8 Mar 2011The Internet is a world wide web of information, some of which can be challenging to sift through. This barrage of data can be a bit overwhelming at times—after all, anyone can search for anything online, and most searches will generate some sort of data hit. It seems as though the number of hits you [...]
According to the recent National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse, which is conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, children whose parents use home drug testing kits are far less vulnerable to drug addiction. The results of the extensive survey have conclusively shown that parents who [...]
A study designed to gauge the level of concern parents have about different drugs has shown that prescription drug abuse is a hidden threat to adolescents and teenagers across America. National polling firm RT Strategies polled 1,000 adults nationwide as part of Project 7th Grade and First Check’s Back to School campaign, finding that only [...]
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26 Jan 2010The debate over random student drug testing in high schools has often been a contentious one, but today the consensus is that school drug testing programs are a highly effective deterrent to drug abuse. School districts which have implemented drug testing programs have reported tremendous success in the reduction of student drug use.
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23 Jan 2010Emerging scientific data has conclusively linked the advent of powerful hair follicle drug testing to a drastic reduction in dangerous drug abuse by employees across the country. Since hair follicle drug tests became the predominant employment drug testing method, businesses and corporations, results have shown a severe decline in the abuse of cocaine and methamphetamine by the American workforce.
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