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		<title>Sante Fe School Takes Strong Stance Against Drugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A school in Santa Fe is taking a strong stance in its fight against drugs. Starting next fall, St. Michael&#8217;s Catholic School plans to begin randomly drug testing its students, and that has a lot of parents talking. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter what school, what city, what town, you&#8217;re going to find drugs. No family&#8217;s going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should record companies start mandatory drug testing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been so many artists in the music industry plagued by problems with drugs and alcohol over the years. Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson – the list goes on and on … and now, everyone’s talking about the death of Whitney Houston. Although the official toxicology reports have yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychemedics.com/blog/2012/02/should-record-companies-start-mandatory-drug-testing/</link>
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		<title>DOD Testing Program to Screen for More Prescription Drugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Department’s drug-testing program is expanding to add screening for two additional prescription medications to the range of legal and illegal drugs it currently detects. Joe Angello, the department’s director of operational readiness and safety, told Pentagon Channel and American Forces Press Service reporters the two drugs added to the screening program &#8212; hydrocodone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychemedics.com/blog/2012/02/dod-testing-program-to-screen-for-more-prescription-drugs/</link>
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		<title>It is time to get tough about drugs at work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Hamilton, senior vice president of the West Virginia Coal Association, said those two states have suspended 2,000 coal miners who failed drug tests. Some of them are licensed in West Virginia and could mine here. Companies are trying to screen for drug abuse. &#8220;A number of companies have instituted mandatory drug testing programs over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychemedics.com/blog/2012/02/it-is-time-to-get-tough-about-drugs-at-work/</link>
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		<title>Psychemedics Awarded Patent Fundamental To Hair Analysis Drug Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world’s largest drug testing company using hair analysis received its seventh United States Patent dedicated to liquefying hair to release drug analytes. Acton, Massachusetts, January 24, 2012 &#8211; Psychemedics Corporation (NASDAQ:PMD) , hair testing pioneer and global leader for 25 years, announced today that the United States Patent Office issued a seventh patent, US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.psychemedics.com/blog/2012/01/psychemedics-awarded-patent-fundamental-to-hair-analysis-drug-testing/</link>
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		<title>Prescription Drug Overdoses — a U.S. Epidemic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, approximately 27,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States, one death every 19 minutes. Prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem in the United States. The increase in unintentional drug overdose death rates in recent years (Figure 1) has been driven by increased use of a class of prescription [...]]]></description>
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