admin Drug use among the Wabash Valley work force may be affecting employers more than they know. Product quality, on-the-job injuries and employee absences can all be related to employee drug use. The best way to determine if drug use is a factor is to randomly drug test employees. https://tribstar.com/news/x970729107/Employers-hear-update-on-drug-use-in-Wabash-Valley
PHOENIX — Arizona’s new medical marijuana law is going to create new problems for employers trying to promote a safe workplace while respecting the new rights of those who will be able to legally inhale the drug. The law spells out that a worker who has one of those state-issued cards allowing them to possess … Read more
The California Chamber of Commerce disagrees that Prop. 19’s effects would be minimal. Last week, the employer lobbying group began airing radio ads in Southern California detailing its opposition. “It creates a whole new protected class of employees and ties employers’ hands in maintaining a drug and alcohol-free workplace,” said Erika Frank, general counsel for … Read more
The newest trend in teen drug abuse is coming out of a bottle instead of from the street, and the national D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program has supplemented its curriculum to address this growing epidemic. Paragould Police Department D.A.R.E. officer Cpl. Brad Snyder said the typical D.A.R.E. program lasts 10 weeks, but the newest … Read more
Officials are working together to stop prescription drug abuse in local schools and communities. “Ninety percent of our problem with drugs is from prescription drugs,” School Superintendent Dr. Bobby Hathcock said.
Police have accused the janitor of a local elementary school of selling drugs. 26-year-old Christopher D. Roland was the janitor of Tully Elementary School in Jeffersontown, Ky. on Friday when police detectives received a tip that he was selling marijuana there. https://www.fox41.com/Global/story.asp?S=13341312
The most popular medicine in the U.S. was prescribed 128 million times last year, even as a panel of experts called together by the Food and Drug Administration recommended that regulators ban it. The drug is Vicodin, a 40-year-old addictive medicine that combines the narcotic hydrocodone with acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol; the prescription … Read more
Thirty-one of 75 patients hospitalized for opioid detoxification told University physicians they first got hooked on drugs legitimately prescribed for pain. Another 24 began with a friend’s left-over prescription pills or pilfered from a parent’s medicine cabinet. The remaining 20 patients said they got hooked on street drugs. However, 92 percent of the patients in … Read more