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In Illinois the Illini Bluffs School District 327 are on strike due to a new random and suspicion-less drug testing policy. The teachers feel that this is an unnecessary policy and that the school district is on a “power play,” to gain control for future negotiations and are taking revenge against the teachers. Other schools within [...]
Drug testing prison letters and pictures? Nationwide prisons are seeing a new drug fad hitting the inmates and the prison officials are on to it. Prison officials now have to drug test suspicious incoming mail sent to the inmates. Usually on children’s coloring pages, you can find a drug Suboxone hidden within the pages. [...]
Each year there is an average of 3.2 million truckers on the road. According to the Department of Transportation 500,000 trucks will get into accidents, causing 98% of the truck drivers involved to be killed. Studies also show that trucks are involved in 2.4% of all traffic accidents while one person is injured or killed [...]
Prescription drug abuse is soaring in the United States. The numbers of accidental overdose deaths are increasing at an alarming rate with over 20,000 people in the United States dying each year from prescription drug overdoses. The age range with the highest death rates? Studies say 35-44 year-olds. The number of deaths caused by accidental [...]
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11 Aug 2011Dealing with peer pressure for teens and children is a crucial skill that can often set the path for their futures. The human need to fit in and gain acceptance from peers is normal, and at an impressionable young age- the wrong choice can prove deadly. When faced with the peer pressure of drugs, a [...]
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8 Aug 2011The Padres’ former first round draft pick, Donavan Tate, 20, has been suspended for 50 games due to a positive drug test. The drug test showed that Tate had been using synthetic cannabis best known as “Spice” or “K2”. The effects of “Spice/K2” have the same effects as marijuana.
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that it costs employers around $75 to $100 billion yearly to pay for drug abuse in the workplace. These costs consists of lost time, accidents, healthcare and workers compensation costs. Not to mention that the employer can also feel the impact from tardiness, absenteeism, turnover attitude problems theft, decreased productivity, crime and violence.
It is due to these issues that most employers, including the majority of all Fortune 500 companies require an applicant and workers to participate in drug testing. The purpose for this drug testing is that it is mainly a safety issue and to lessen these consequences from substance abuse.
Federal air safety regulators have hit United Airlines for fines of $584,375 for supposedly failing to perform proper workplace drug testing on workers in safety-sensitive areas.
While most drug abusers believe that salvia is the legal equivalent to marijuana, nothing could be further from the truth. Although salvia remains legal in many places, several states and countries have begun to regulate the drug due to increasing awareness of its hallucinogenic effects
Many health and life insurance companies are using nicotine/cotinine drug testing to evaluate prospective clients for tobacco use.
Complete Drug Testing Solutions offers drug testing kits approved by the FDA for private home use.