Year: 2019

A stoned classroom, dangerous games and a pissed-off union. Just Another Week In Our Dopey World This week we are pulling stories from a mixed bag because combined they are all good stories and reminders that the people who use or put addictive substances out there really have no idea just how or when they ... Read more

Drilling Down on Drug Policies in Oil and Gas In 2018, the oil industry enjoyed a good year. However as the second American shale revolution boomed in the Permian Basin (West Texas), drug and alcohol abuse among oil field workers also flourished. The temptation to experiment with illegal drugs for workers isn’t hard to imagine. ... Read more

Now Opioids' Victims Span Gender and Generation The numbers are daunting.  What began more than two decades ago as a public health problem primarily associated with young and white middle-aged males has grown into an epidemic of prescription and illicit opioid abuse across generational and gender boundaries. According to new data from 1999-2017 in the ... Read more

The Silent Crisis in Construction While we’ve seen the negative impact of the opioid epidemic has had on various industries, the crisis in construction has moved in silence. Typically workers are injured on-site and are prescribed pain-relieving narcotics to numb the pain. Forcing themselves to return to work early results in exacerbated injuries, loss of ... Read more

Recreational? Medical? It's still a Schedule I drug. Recently Psychemedics co-hosted the Oil and Gas Symposium on Marijuana in Houston Texas. Although the legal landscape may be changing some things remain clear for transportation firms. THC (marijuana) is still a Schedule 1 drug After alcohol, marijuana is most linked in to impaired driving Countless studies ... Read more