Alcohol and Drug Testing
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Based on current trends, within the next few years it will be very difficult for recreational drug/alcohol users to get a job in any larger company. Alcohol and drug testing at work has become one of the most efficient tools we have against alcohol and drug abuse.
Many professionals agree that this is a low cost strategy which makes possible easy identification of those needing help, reduces drug demand, cuts accidents and sick leave, improves worker attendance and productivity. Yet, alcohol and drug tests are for some people disturbing because they bring penalties to users with positive tests that can have very little in common or even nothing to do with their work performance.
At the same time, some difficult situations can appear like knee-jerk dismissals and the possibility of discrimination at interviews. Additionally, it increases costs, invades privacy, and appears authoritarian.
But, despite these problems it has become popular to discuss testing millions of people at their work places for both alcohol and drugs. If you remember, not long ago this idea was considered extreme. But now, alcohol and drug tests are strongly encouraged by government officials. It all seems to be a quiet but powerful revolution, largely unreported because many companies are skittish of the bad publicity they could get.
Last year, one of the government's own agencies – the Forensic Science Agency – did carry out over a million workplace tests in the transport, construction, manufacturing and financial services industries. Recently, the International Petroleum Exchange joined London Transport and many other companies in random alcohol testing.
This world-wide dash to sobriety and drug tests follows the great success and popularity in America where there were many who had thought the war against drugs was hopeless.
According to the United Nations, the drug industry accounts about for nearly 8% of all international trading. The customs service, DEA and other police agencies, increased education, larger prison sentences and even crop destruction failed to make a significant dent in the problem. This is why testing became more and more attractive and convenient, even at the cost of our civil liberties.
Many large companies already spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year testing for drugs at work, affecting 40% of the US work force. Soon as many as 80% of all workers will be subjected to drug and alcohol testing.
US studies show that substance abusers (including alcohol abusers) are less productive and more likely to: be late, hurt others or themselves at work, sue for compensation, and many times as likely to be absent from work.
The state of Ohio started random testing and officials found that absenteeism dropped by 91%, job related injuries decreased by 97% and there were fewer problems with supervisors. Results like this are so convincing that a lot of companies are now testing prospective employees.
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