Drug use is an increasingly prevalent problem in the workplace and less workplaces today are reliably testing their employees. Drug testing is important not just to protect employers, but also to protect employees from their fellow staff members, and to protect the employees from problems that the company may got through. When employees use drugs, Read more »
What Type of Industries in Ga Enforce Drug Testing?
Companies across several Georgia industries use drug testing to maintain a safe workplace and an optimal experience for clients. Industries that involve physical labor almost always use drug testing to prevent accidents, but office jobs and customer service positions also commonly test employees for their own reasons. Below is more information about the industries that Read more »
Atlanta: What Are the State Drug Testing Laws?
For the most part, drug testing laws are regulated by individual states. Federal law has few limits on employer drug testing although it requires testing in certain safety-sensitive industries such as aviation and transportation among others. Most workplace screening procedures test for drugs such as heroin, Cocaine, Ecstasy and amphetamines among others. Employees in Georgia Read more »
Synthetic Drugs—Is Your Workplace at Risk?
With the onslaught of designer drugs, employers now have yet another minefield to navigate as more people turn to these lab-created versions that they believe are “safer” alternatives to street drugs. The American Association of Poison Control makes annual reports on alarming trends and one was phone calls regarding the use of synthetic drugs. In Read more »
Half of the Worlds Illicit Drug Use Occurs in the U.S.
Despite being the birthplace of the global “war on drugs”, more than half of the world’s illicit drug use occurs in the United States. More than 45 percent of Americans claim to know someone with a substance abuse problem, and, according to estimates by the United States government, more than 118 million Americans admit to Read more »
A Test That’s Easy to Pass
Almost every employer now utilizes some type of pre-employment drug screen before they will offer you a job. Be it going to a local lab for sampling and testing, or on-site testing by the company itself. Passing drug tests is extremely important, because you will not be hired if you fail, and you usually will Read more »
The Importance of Random Drug Testing
Most major corporations today utilize pre-employment drug testing to screen all new hires. Post-accident drug testing is also important for insurance and liability reasons and corporations understand the important of random drug testing on a regular basis. For companies large and small, maintaining a drug-free work policy and enforcing it with truly random drug testing Read more »
Atlanta Has a Drug Problem
The use of illicit drugs among Georgia residents is comparable to the average of the United States, which is high relative to other developed nations. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), from 2007 to 2008 approximately seven percent of Georgia residents used an illicit drug in the last month. Moreover, Read more »