Effectiveness_Of_Drug_Testing_In_The_Workplace

Effectiveness Of Drug Testing In The Workplace The Effectiveness of Drug Testing In The Work Place • Drug testing at work is the single and most effective weapon we have against drug abuse. • The goals of drug testing would include: • Improvement in productivity • A more safe work environment • A decrease in absenteeism • According to the American Council for Drug Education, substance abusers incur 300% higher medical costs than non-using employers do, and 25% of substance abusers steal from their employer. Also drug abusers are 33% less productive. • Drug testing is required among public sector workers, such as police, firefighters, and other federal workers. • In the private sector, airline pilots, bus drivers, train engineers, and others hold the lives of many people in their hands. • Drug related accidents also encourage people to accept drug testing. More drug, testing, work, workers, employees, effective, abusers, substance, sector, programs, people, environment, corporations, absenteeism, when, many, improvement, according, weapon, way, treatment, treating, train, thing, tests, test, support, supervisors, strengthen, steal, state