Positive Drug Test Levels Drop Among Truckers

The percentage of truck drivers testing positive on random drug tests during 2011 dropped to the lowest level since mandatory testing began almost two decades ago. The positive rate was 0.9% for the 492,000 drivers in the 2011 sample, DOT said. The 2011 total was lower than the 1% of 455,000 drivers who tested positive … Read more

Rockhurst High School Drug Testing Policy

The new Rockhurst High School drug testing policy has sent a ripple through Kansas City. Starting with the 2013-2014 school year, Rockhurst High School will be collecting hair samples from students for random drug testing – and participation is mandatory. Officials at the Jesuit school tell 41 Action News approximately 60 strands of hair will … Read more

Wanted: Drug-Free Workers

Amphetamine, Pain-Killer Use Is Hiring Hurdle in Appalachia’s oil-and-gas Boom CARNEGIE, Pa.—Dawn Fuchs’s trucking and environmental-cleanup business are thriving, thanks mostly to a boom in natural gas drilling in western Pennsylvania. But she faces an unexpected hurdle to growth: More job applicants are failing drug tests. “It’s getting harder and harder to find clean applicants,” … Read more

Scientists Find Gene Interactions That Make Cocaine Abuse Death Eight Times More Likely

Scientists have identified genetic circumstances under which common mutations on two genes interact in the presence of cocaine to produce a nearly eight-fold increased risk of death as a result of abusing the drug. An estimated one in three whites who died of cocaine exposure is a carrier of variants that make cocaine abuse particularly … Read more

Drug Test Results Concern Ohio Prison Officials

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio prison officials are concerned with the relatively high percentage of inmates who tested positive for drugs last year, a newspaper reported Monday. Annual drug testing in October by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction found 3.32 percent testing positive. Most had used marijuana, but there were also positive results for … Read more

Rockhurst High School Will Test All Students for Drugs

Rockhurst High School Will Test All Students for Drugs Citing an attitude of permissiveness among students about drug and alcohol use, the Rockhurst High School Board of Trustees unanimously decided to begin a program of mandatory and random drug and alcohol testing of all students beginning in the 2013-2014 school year. School Official and Student … Read more

Penn Basketball Suspensions Due to Failed Drug Tests, Sources Say

Two sources close to the team expect suspensions to be lifted for Wagner A highly reputable source has told the Daily Pennsylvanian that Miles Cartwright, Henry Brooks, Tony Hicks, Darien Nelson-Henry and Steve Rennard were all suspended for Penn basketball’s game at Delaware on Dec. 21 after failing random drug tests. The official word after … Read more

DOT: Smoking Pot Still Doesn’t Fly

Don’t roll those joints just yet, truckers and pilots. Pot-smokers rejoiced on Election Day when Colorado and Washington state residents voted to legalize recreational marijuana use and let individuals 21 or older have up to an ounce of pot without repercussion. But the Department of Transportation isn’t smoking that peace pipe. DOT’s Office of Drug … Read more

Hair Apparent: A New Drug Test For Truckers?

The long-haired Grateful Dead used to sing about “Truckin’” on “reds, vitamin C and cocaine.” Now, some lawmakers see hair as the best way to test truckers for drug use. That’s just the latest front in a broader federal crackdown on drugged driving. This summer, Congress required the Department of Transportation to create a database … Read more