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Posted: Jun 15 2023
By: Calee Davis
Setting up a drug-free workplace for your business is more important than ever. Substance abuse is at an all time high with over 21% of Americans admitting to using illicit drugs in the past year. Employers must take appropriate action to maintain
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Posted: Apr 12 2021
By: Jonathan Baktari, MD / CEO
In 17 states, recreational marijuana has been decriminalized or fully legalized. Ten states have established systems to charge marijuana sellers and buyers taxes to fund a variety of services. Of the states where weed is legal, the majority are..
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Posted: Feb 10 2021
By: Jonathan Baktari, MD / CEO
To paraphrase American author Mark Twain: Rumors of the death of the traditional workplace have been greatly exaggerated. Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of work-from-home setups, the majority of jobs in the U.S. can't be...
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Posted: Mar 01 2020
By: Calee Davis
OCCUPATIONAL OVERDOSE DEATHS While federal health officials believe the rate of drug overdose deaths declined in the U.S. between 2018 and 2019, data shows an upward trend since 2015. [1, 2] It would stand to reason that overdose deaths would
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Posted: Feb 18 2020
By: Ashlee Arnold
Which States Are Most Affected by Drug Use, Addiction & Drug Laws? Between 1999 and 2017, more than 702,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. About a half-million people are incarcerated for drug offenses. Drug abuse and addiction cost the..
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Posted: Feb 07 2020
By: Ashlee Arnold
Parole & Probation Across the U.S. The issue of mass incarceration has become a major topic for political debate on both the left and right, but Americans increasingly agree that there are multiple factors relating to law enforcement and...
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Posted: Dec 06 2019
By: Jonathan Baktari, MD / CEO
American adults engage in about 130 million episodes [1] of drunken driving in an average year, according to research from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention despite the specter of accidents, fines and arrests. While obviously.
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Posted: Oct 23 2019
By: Jonathan Baktari, MD / CEO
Since the early 1970s, the United States has spent more than $1 trillion [1] fighting the so-called War on Drugs. Today, more than 84% of all drug-related arrests are for possession only, and a person is arrested every 25 seconds for drug...
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Posted: Sep 03 2019
By: Ashlee Arnold
Employers across the United States have faced more impactful rules, regulations, and issues with substance use and abuse over the last few years than ever before. From the highly publicized opioid epidemic to repercussions from seemingly incognito
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Posted: Jun 17 2019
By: Jonathan Baktari, MD / CEO
In the United States, employee drug testing has been around for more than 40 years. The test methods and rules related to drug testing, on both the federal and state levels, continue to evolve. Today, there are more than 600 state statutes and...
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