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Articles about Drug Testing – General

Considerations in Selecting The Appropriate Drug Testing Method for Businesses

To choose the most appropriate method of testing for your business, you should consider several factors. There is no one-size-fits-all drug testing program. Each business must assess their own needs to tailor their program accordingly. To do this, you should consider: the volume of tests that will be conducted; the drugs that will be tested [...]

Characteristics of Organizations with Drug Testing Programs / Organizations that Do Not Have Drug Testing Programs

Drug testing programs first appeared in the United States in the early 1970s, and the proportion of companies with these programs likely peaked in the mid-1990s. A drug testing program is a kind of program that has been adopted in workplaces to address substance abuse problems and the potential adverse consequences associated with them. Although [...]

How Drug Tests Are Performed – Impact of Drug Testing Programs

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in collaboration with and commissioned by the Drug & Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA) conducted a survey in March 2011 to obtain the opinions of human resources professionals about corporate drug testing. The survey revealed that some employers noticed an impact on employee productivity, absenteeism and workers compensation incidence [...]

Organizations with Drug Testing Programs

According to a March 2011 survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) in collaboration with and commissioned by the Drug & Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA), more than half of employers (57%) conduct drug tests on all job candidates, while only 29% do not conduct drug tests on any job candidates. The [...]

Walmart Drug Test Kits

Drug test kits are helpful when you want to test yourself or another person, like your child, for drug use. If you are a business owner, you can use drug test kits to test your employees as part of your company’s drug testing policy. Today, drug use can easily be detected by test kits, either [...]

Top 10 Legal Addiction Cases

You might be wondering if there is any sort of addiction that is legal. The answer is yes. However, you cannot expect that they are non-punishable just because they are classified as legal. Addiction does not only cover drugs and other substances. Many of us are addicted into something else, such as television series, computer [...]

10 Things you should know about Prescription Painkillers or Narcotics

At the sign of pain, we usually take medicines to relive it. These medicines are actually known as pain relievers or narcotics, which primarily contain mixtures of opiates. Narcotics are medicinal drugs that contain anesthetic and analgesic properties which alters the mind’s perception to pain. Hence, when we drink narcotics, we feel relaxed and pain [...]

5 Things Parents Should Know About Marijuana

Marijuana is a widely abuse illicit drugs in the United States. However, it is appalling to know that most of the people who are found to be abusing marijuana are kids. According the National Survey on Drug Abuse, kids are very prone to abusing drugs. In fact more than 55 percent of kids admitted that [...]

5 Ways on How Cocaine is Abuse

Cocaine is one of the most commonly abused stimulants in the United States. Although this type of drug is an ingredient in some prescription medicines that are prescribed by doctors to cure respiratory diseases, they are smuggled furtively among youngsters at schools and along the streets. The many ways on how cocaine is abused are [...]

4 Kinds of Dangerous Marijuana Fun Foods

Marijuana drug testing shows a constantly growing abuse on the substance especially among youngsters. Teens admit that they find it easy to take hold of such drugs from colleagues and friends especially at schools. Smoking is probably the most common way on abusing marijuana. Users roll loose marijuana into cigarettes; they call it Aunt Mary, [...]