Archive for the Drug Policy Category
Tips to Protect yourself When Buying From an Online Drug Store
You will want to protect yourself when ordering from an online drug store. The reason? There have been plenty of reports in the past several years of pharmacies not giving consumers the correct medications, giving placebos or outdated medication and even giving them dosages that far exceed what their prescriptions are written for. When traced [...]
Why we need Policy Manuals
“A policy is written to protect a company from those who break the rules, not from those who follow them.” – Bryce’s Law INTRODUCTION In today’s litigious society, a Policy Manual (sometimes referred to as an Employee Handbook) is a wise investment for any company, large or small. Let me give you an example, back [...]
Commercial Bus Companies Smuggling Drugs Through Out the Americas
Indicted for drug trafficking are the owners/operators of commercial bus companies operating from Mexico into the Rio Grande Valley to numerous U.S. cities and their drivers, have been indicted for transporting large loads of marijuana and cocaine in specially modified commercial buses and using money laundering techniques. According to the U.S. government the indictment, recently [...]
Forensic Saliva Drug Tests or Oral Fluid Drug Tests
Saliva or Oral Fluid is gaining popularity as the test media of choice due to itâs 1:1 ratio of blood drug concentrations. This is possible for saliva is termed as a refined version of plasma that has the capability to bear trace amounts of drugs and their resulting metabolites that can be easily tested through [...]
Drug Testing in Schools
Drug Testing Programs in Schools are measures that teachers and administrators of a school put into place in order to discourage drug use by students. School districts saw widespread implementation of comprehensive Drug and Alcohol policies starting in the mid-1980s. Although small town school districts have generally been slower to adopt these measures, teenage drug [...]
Hair Drug Testing in the News
Hair drug testing has been catching the news wires lately as it touches Celebrity rumours, family issues, and concern in the workplace and public service. Let us take a quick look of some interesting news articles that has hit the hair wires on drug testing. Fire-fighters in Drug Trouble In the Boston fire department, forty [...]
Mexican Drug Cartel Related Violence is Terrorizing America
MICHAEL WEBSTER: INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER. Sunday Oct 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM PDT Drug trafficking and terror has become a way of life in Mexico. U.S. Mexican border cities from Brownsville Texas to San Diego California continue to be most affected by cartel-related violence; other U.S. cities are also being targeted with drug trafficking violence and [...]
What Can be Done to Prevent Drug Abuse
Drug abuse is the use of illicit drugs, or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs. The abuse of legitimate drugs can be done by using the drugs in a manner or in quantities other than directed, or for purposes other than legitimate purposes. There are a lot of misconceptions about Drug abuse and it’s [...]
Issues Regarding Drug Testing
The argument that drug testing actually causes more harm to society rather than helping it as professed has been gaining ground in the last few years. Although drug testing was conceptualized and implemented with the purpose of reducing the damage that is being done to society by drugs, the reality of the effects of drug [...]