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Article: "What Every Employer Should Know About
Drug-Abuse in the Workplace!"
This important article for employers is presented in a "Q & A" format.
It takes only 4 to 5 minutes to read in its entirety. If you are an EMPLOYER, please take the time.
It's your company, your life's investment, your blood sweat and tears. Keep it drug-free!

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ARTICLE INDEX ("Frequently Asked Questions"):
How big is America's drug problem?
But, is it really a problem for small business owners as well as for Corporate America?
What are employers doing about the drug problem?
Is drug testing accurate?
But can’t you “beat” drug tests?
What about "false positives"?
Is drug testing legal?
How common is drug testing?
But is it any business of an employer’s "what" an employee does in the privacy of his or her own home on a Saturday night?
Employee drug-use was documented in a study which found that, of those employees seeking help on a “cocaine hotline”...(statistics of cocaine users' drug-use while on-the-job)
Another study by the U.S. government found that those who illicitly used drugs are...(stats re drug-users' job performance deterioration)
But don't many people use drugs without losing control?
What about drug or alcohol-related crime on the job?
In fact, drug-abuse treatment professionals state that a drug abuser's "JOB" is usually the one thing abusers will do ANYTHING to hold on to, for several reasons...
How long do drugs stay in your system?
OK, so cocaine is serious, but just how dangerous can marijuana really be?
What specimens are commonly used for drug testing?
What about employee alcohol abuse?
Aren't there important individual rights at stake?
What are employees’ views about workplace drug testing? (Survey results)
But, come on now...does workplace drug abuse really affect ME?
Do company drug-abuse prevention programs work?

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