The order was quickly followed by the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988, which required employers with federal grants to keep their businesses drug-free. The act led to widespread drug testing in the private industry and, in a decade, the rate of drug testing applicants among large employers increased almost four fold, from 21 percent in 1987 to 81 percent in 1996 (Wessler, 2012). Large to small size companies use drug testing as a condition of employment. After initial testing, employees are added to a random testing program that allows for unannounced
Recently newer forms of long lasting codeine tablets have been developed, some of whom may last up to twelve hours. Codeine addicts have been known to mix the drug with alcohol to enhance their high. This mixture is simply referred to as a cocktail, but this kind of cocktail is lethal. Mixing codeine with alcohol greatly increases the probability of overdose, and such overdoses have led to countless deaths. Most of the high profile deaths associated with codeine have affected those associated with the hip hop industry.
Brent Evans Mr. Calver American Lit 2: 1st period May 14, 2012 The Perks of Fitting In As shown Stephen Chbosky’s novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” too many teenagers these days take far more dangerous drugs, and make far worse choices in the acts they take place in. About 75% of high school students have tried alcohol, and about 26% of teens have had a recent episode of heavy drinking (more than 5 drinks within a couple of hours). “When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there ”(Chbosky 105). In Stephen Chbosky’s novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, teens abuse alcohol, drugs, and unsafe sex.
1. Saturday Night in Dallas ER. This video was very interesting to me and caught my attention right from the beginning. It took place in Parkland Memorial Hospital where there are 30 thousand injury related visits to the Emergency Room every year. A fact that caught my attention was one half of those injury related visits each year were due to drugs and alcohol.
More than half of America’s youth are drug users. Drug War Facts stated that more that 102 million Americans have tried marijuana; 15.2 million Americans are estimated to be “past-month” users. Yet there are only an estimated 1,855,000 “past –month” users of cocaine and 213,000 “past-month” users of heroin. With that said, I came home to find my sons friend in our house without permission rambling through our kitchen drawers. He was under the influence of marijuana and looked at me with a surprise face, stating that he needed to write a note to my son.
You could argue that an era of cognitive enhancers has already begun; collage students routinely borrow a few pills from a friends Ritalin prescription to pull an all-nighter and drugs such as Adderall and modafinil that are normally prescribed for conditions such as ADHD are widely used to enhance performance in the workplace. In some campuses, up to one quarter of students have reported using the drugs and a national study conducted in 2007 showed that more than 1.6 million people in the U.S. had used prescription stimulants nonmedically during the previous 12 months. Now lets talk a bit about the history of these drugs and how they work. In 1929 the chemist Gordon Alles introduced amphetamine for medical use, a synthetic drug chemically similar to the Chinese herb ephedrine. During World War II various types of the drug were used by both sides of the conflict.
H1N1: Should We Close the Doors to Mexico? By March 9th 2009 the first symptoms of the H1N1 virus, more commonly known as Swine Flu, were showing up in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The first confirmed case there was a five year old boy who, along with hundreds of other people, in the town of La Gloria struggled to breathe due to the symptoms of the flu. The news of the outbreak in Mexico burst into public consciousness last Friday April, 24 2009. Since then, the virus has spread like wild fire throwing the public into panic mode and now there are at least 130 cases of the H1N1 virus have been confirmed in 20 states across the U.S. Not to mention, nearly 300 schools across America have been closed.
The use of drugs such as cocaine, crack, heroin and marijuana has been proved to cause unbelievable damage and harm to the body and brain. In the Article “Info Facts-Heroin” reports that thousands of heroin addicts die from overdoses each year and heroin users are also at great risk of getting aids from the use of unclean needles. By legalizing drugs every one would have the right to consume drugs without any restrictions which would lead hospitals to be more filled, more school dropouts would occur, and more crack babies raise the stakes of legalizing drugs. Knowing what drugs do to users has been the solid basis for my saying no to drugs and why I believe they should not be
William Milner Professor Chuda CRJ-201 8 May 2014 Police Drug Testing Drug testing has been moving into the mainstream workplace in the past decade. The certain situations which would trigger these drug screens, as well as justify them, are varied and numerous. Many people, including airline pilots, truck driver, and other transportation officials are required to submit to a drug screen on behalf of public safety. All of our favorite professional athletes are required to take a random drug tests to ensure there is fair play in the games we love to watch and play as kids. High school kids wishing to play in a sport, a correction Officer, college-loan recipients, fortune 500 companies, and Police Officer’s are routinely required to submit
On its ninth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, the DEA collected 309 tons of unwanted prescription drugs at 5,495 sites throughout the country. This brought the total amount of drugs collected in four years to 2,411 tons.3 The Medicine Abuse Project is a five-year action campaign that aims to prevent half a million teens from abusing medicine by the year 2017. The campaign provides comprehensive resources for parents and caregivers, law enforcement officials, health care providers, educators and others so that everyone can take a stand and help end medicine abuse. You can take the pledge on their website and be one of nearly 10,000 advocates who have already committed to fighting this epidemic.5 Another effort to promote awareness and prevention is PEERx. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) developed PEERX, an online educational campaign, to discourage abuse of prescription drugs among teens.