Employers rewarded for drug-testing employees

[neversickanymore]

Employers rewarded for drug-testing employees
Posted: Oct 07, 2014

COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) -According to the Georgia Council on Alcohol and Drugs, 70% of illegal drug users are functioning adults who are currently employed in our workforce.

The event was called ‘Drugs Don't Work,' and it's a play on words highlighting the council's plan to discourage illegal drug use by targeting the workplace.

"Really, the largest concentration of demand for drugs is in one place- the workplace. So if we can attack the drug problem [there], we can have a real impact on reducing drug use," said Chuck Wade, executive director of the Georgia Council on Drug and Alcohol.

They are tying a person's livelihood to their being drug-free in the hope that there will be one more disincentive to engaging in substance abuse.

The council encouraged business owners to give their employees drug tests. By doing so, the business will receive a 7.5% discount on their insurance and worker's compensation payments.

According to the speakers at the event, prescription pills are seeing the highest rate of increased abuse is prescription pills, and it's not limited to any one occupation.

continued with video http://www.kptv.com/story/26730977/employers-rewarded-for-drug-testing-employees

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According to the Georgia Council on Alcohol and Drugs, 70% of illegal drug users are functioning adults who are currently employed in our workforce.

Guess drugs aren't the problem then. who wuda thunk it.. but yes please go create a whole ton of problems where there aren't any by harassing a bunch more good productive citizens. YaaY, ruin as many of their careers as possible!! Don't forget to show the results you caused and blame the drug using demons.

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[Jabberwocky]

LMAO nice find NSA :D bravo!

 

[thujone]

"According to Georgia"... nuff sed thx bai

 

[cj]

Wow what a bunch of assholes.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

This is exactly what we need. More job loss.

The economy will suffer immensely.

 

[neversickanymore]

LMAO nice find NSA :D bravo!

We will get them the help they need.

Substance dependence, or addiction, as defined by the DSM-IV, is indicated by the presence of three or more of the criteria listed below in the last 12 months.
Note that all but the first two criteria reflect some form of loss of control over the use of or effects of the drug.

-Tolerance: Does the patient tend to need more of the drug over time to get the same effect?

-Withdrawal symptoms: Does the patient experience withdrawal symptoms when he or she does not use the drug?

-Continued use of drug despite harm: Is the patient experiencing physical or psychological harm from the drug?

-Loss of control: Does the patient take the drug in larger amounts, or for longer than planned?

-Attempts to cut down: Has the patient made a conscious, but unsuccessful, effort to reduce his or her drug use?

-Salience: Does the patient spend significant time obtaining or thinking about the drug, or recovering from its effects?

-Reduced involvement: Has the patient given up or reduced his or her involvement in social, occupational or recreational activities due to the drug?

https://knowledgex.camh.net/primary...it/fundamentals/Pages/faq_dsmiv_criteria.aspx

-Tolerance: Does the patient tend to need more of the drug over time to get the same effect?

Check

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-Continued use of drug despite harm: Is the patient experiencing physical or psychological harm from the drug?

Check

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The war on drugs is America’s longest war. It has been 40-plus years since Nixon launched our modern “war on drugs” and yet drugs are as plentiful as ever. While the idea that we can have a “drug-free society” is laughable, the disastrous consequences of our drug war are dead serious.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-newman/drug-war-consequences_b_2404347.html

1. Racial Injustice
2. Denied Access to Education, Housing and Benefits
3. Wasted Taxpayer Dollars
4. Unsafe Neighborhoods
5. Shredded Constitutional Rights
6. Bloodbath in Latin America- "with more than 60,000 people killed in prohibition violence since 2006 in Mexico alone."
7. Compromising Teenagers’ Safety
8. Police State create
9. Mass imprisonment
10. Tax revenue lost
11.The costs to the public health system of unsafe, unregulated drugs are exorbitant
12.The 'war on drugs' distorts entire economies
13.The 'war on drugs' deters business investment in 'war-torn' areas
14. Poor farmers forced by necessity into growing drug crops are ruined financially by mass government destruction of their fields
15.The 'war on drugs' kills important tourism industries in 'war-torn' areas
16.The violence perpetrated by both criminals and governments to control the illegal drug trade is devastating
17.The excess of profits made from the illegal drug trade is more than enough to buy influence and corrupt public officials
18.The economic distortions caused by the illegal drug trade stunt long term growth and development
19.The 'war on drugs' criminalizes poverty and makes criminals of the poor
20.Aerial fumigation, a favorite tool of the 'war on drugs,' is destroying the environment
21. Large scale deforestation directly results from conflict between governments and criminal drug producers
22.The 'war on drugs' is causing uncontrollable environmental pollution even aside from aerial fumigation
23. The levels of street crime caused by the 'war on drugs' are astonishing
24.Criminalizing drug use pushes it underground, where it is unsafe and unsupervised
25.Unsafe use due to drug criminalization is contributing to the spread of infectious diseases
26.The 'war on drugs' is making it harder for those who need drugs for medicinal purposes to get them
27.Even minor drug-related offenses can destroy one's opportunities forever
28.Drug offenses are essentially being used as an excuse to take away the right to vote
29. People around the world (including children) are being imprisoned without any due process
30. Children are losing parents left and right, leaving no one to raise them
32 Reasons Why We Need To End The War On Drugs
10 Ways the Drug War Is Causing Massive Collateral Damage to Our Society

-Loss of control: Does the patient take the drug in larger amounts, or for longer than planned?

another check

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AP IMPACT: After 40 years, $1 trillion, US War on Drugs has failed to meet any of its goals

Even fox news has this one right

-Attempts to cut down: Has the patient made a conscious, but unsuccessful, effort to reduce his or her drug use?

check

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WHITE HOUSE: NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY 2014

-Salience: Does the patient spend significant time obtaining or thinking about the drug, or recovering from its effects?

Check

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ob·ses·sion
noun \äb-ˈse-shən, əb-\

:a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling; broadly : compelling motivation.

: an activity that someone is very interested in or spends a lot of time doing

Drug War Clock

-Reduced involvement: Has the patient given up or reduced his or her involvement in social, occupational or recreational activities due to the drug?

umm, check

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"Not only have billions of tax dollars been wasted, but drug war spending has also resulted in the defunding of other important services. Money funneled into drug enforcement has meant less funding for more serious crime and has left essential education, health, social service and public safety programs struggling to operate on meager funding."
http://www.drugpolicy.org/wasted-tax-dollars

According to standards of addiction, as defined by the DSM-IV, you all are a bunch of hard core addicts. The first step is addmitting you have a problem.

Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.
Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely
give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are
constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.