Advice for Small Employers Testing New Hires for Drugs

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Substance abuse tends to be more common among younger, less-educated workers from lower-income households and more prevalent in men than in women, according to the HHS data. The food service and … Before you start testing for drug use, or contracting …
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The puzzling case of a missing Collingdale woman

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On a bookcase shelf next to mementos confiscated from past cases – a dead grenade, bongs and other odd drug paraphernalia – is the unsolved case of Melissa Ortiz-Rodriguez, the 31-year-old mother of two who went missing in April. "Someone out there has …
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Dr. Wilson Compton named Deputy Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse

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Wilson Compton, M.D., M.P.E., a nationally known expert on the causes and prevention of drug abuse, has been appointed the Deputy Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA,) part of the National Institutes of Health. The announcement was …
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Parental monitoring lowers odds of a gambling problem

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Adolescents who had poor parental supervision at age 11, and which continued to decline through age 14, were significantly more likely than their peers to be problem gamblers between ages 16-22. … Results are online in the journal Addiction. … to …
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