Drug testing within the workplace has become a common practice over the past three decades. While employers continue to focus on eliminating the risks that are associated with drug use from their workplace many other areas are just realizing that drug testing is important. One such area is through workforce development and training. Focusing solely on Indiana‚ drug testing was implemented for all new individuals who were enrolled in training provided by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 on July
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Every four out of five workplaces in the United States since 2006 now require you to take a pre-employment drug test . All employers should be able to give their employees a drug test randomly. But‚ the question is should employers be allowed to do random drug testing and that’s a big yes from eighty-four percent of all employers. There are many reasons why the employer should drug test at the workplace like to make the workplace a safer environment‚ also to maintain productivity and attendance
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Jason Comis Horton English 1301-363 27 November 2012 Testing One Two Three In the current state of the American economy‚ needless spending is something the government needs to avoid at all costs. With some trillion dollars owed to various foreign countries‚ the United States literally cannot afford to pump money into programs that do not benefit the country as a whole. Michael Tanner‚ who is the Director of Health and Welfare studies at the Cato Institute‚ reports that this year the Federal
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Should random drug-testing scheme be made compulsory for all school? This must be a question for many of the public. In the past few days‚ there were more and more news about teenagers taking drugs and were set to the emergency ward. There was also information showing that teenager drug addicts have increased 25 percent comparing to last year. It’s a horrible phenomenon and I do agree that it is essential to make every school involved into this drug-testing scheme for the following reasons:
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Should recipients of welfare be forced to take drug tests? States have been proposing this very thing since the federal welfare reform in 1996. Sentiments from many who are supportive of the legislation seem to be in agreement that they do not want tax dollars spent on drugs and that if you have enough money to buy drugs then you don’t need public assistance. One popular belief is that this will save wrongfully spent tax dollars and shift it to those who need it and are trying to do the right thing
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27th 2010 Is drug testing an unwarranted invasion of employee privacy? Which is more important--getting drugs out of the workplace or protecting the privacy of the employee? What about other health-threatening activities‚ i.e. smoking outside of working hours‚ unprotected sex‚ etc. Should employers be able to question or test employees or potential employees about these activities? Both of these scenarios are tricky ones. On the one hand‚ any employer would want to get drugs out of the workplace
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Thesis Statement Although some people argue for the legalization of drugs‚ addiction to these substances has caused a huge increase in violent crimes in the home‚ at school‚ and on the street. Many people do not understand why individuals become addicted to drugs or how drugs change the brain to create compulsive drug abuse. They mistakenly view drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social problem and may characterize those who take drugs as morally weak. One very common belief is that drug
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M3 Original Assignment Are drug companies that test experimental drugs in foreign countries acting ethically? To answer this question‚ it is worth looking at why a drug company would experiment in a foreign country before even examining the negative impacts in doing so. Testing drugs internationally is done because it is cheaper and far easier to endanger trial patients in a foreign country. Now when exploring the reasons for the need to test at all‚ an act utilitarian may surmise that because
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have explored the world of drugs‚ and drugs come with medical problems. “Many surgeons order routine laboratory tests before admission to the hospital‚ or even before certain outpatient procedures‚ to identify potential problems that might complicate surgery if not detected and treated early” (Stanford University). Some doctors make their patients take drug tests to detect drugs and other problems of the body. People of today’s generation have frequent access to drugs and can get them at essentially
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Drug Decriminalization With An Emphasis on Marijuana “Herb is the healing of a nation‚ alcohol is the destruction” - Bob Marley. Almost 50% of America views marijuana as a unspeakable substance. Most of those 50% who disagree have never actually used it.. Those biased opinions contribute to why marijuana is illegal today. However‚ America is slowly coming to realize that there simply is nothing wrong with marijuana. According to Aviva Shen‚ author of “California Attorney General: Legalizing Marijuana
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