Drug Abuse Uk
Drug Abuse Uk
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Pre-Employment Drug-Screens
Many organizations consider pre-employment drug screening as an effective strategy to save their workplace from unwanted conflicts due to the drug abusers. Pre-employment drug screening is a proactive measure companies take to maintain high productivity environment. It helps them to make the workplace safer, and their employees free from frequent sick leaves and to prevent drug abuse on the job.
The Advantages of Pre-Employment Drug Screens
Pre-employment drug testing has many advantages.
• Pre-employment drug testing helps organizations to check drug-abuse habits of the job applicants. Thus, it helps them to avoid hiring people with habit of frequent drug abuse.
• Pre-employment drug testing not only helps organizations to create a safer and drug-free workplace but also reduces or avoids their chances of handling any future conflicts due to the drug abused employees in their organization. These conflicts include workplace violence or accidents, health benefit utilization and costs, lowered productivity, high insurance premiums, and frequent health-related absences.
• The pre-employment drug-screening program in an organization also has an ample potential to drive the drug abusers away from applying in it. This can be very helpful for small and medium businesses where drug abusers are more likely to apply, as they don’t need to invest much of their time and money on such applicants.
Drawbacks of pre-employment drug screens
Though pre-employment drug screening has many advantages, there are some issues associated with it.
• The major drawback of drug screening is its sample collection process where job applicants are likely to feel violation of their privacy. This increases the hassle for organizations of handling the screening more sensitively.
• Some drugs such as marijuana remain detectable for up to three weeks after their usage. Some other drugs such as cocaine might remain only for few hours after usage. Thus, making a hiring decision based on these results requires much caution as it may affect the career of a job applicant.
• There are some possibilities of prescription-drugs affecting the drug-testing results. Organizations discriminating a job applicant based on the prescription drug-abuse could be violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Some latest advances in medical testing have resulted in evolvement of certain drug-screening products, which are easy to monitor, adulteration proof, affordable, and provide instant and reliable results. These enable organizations to conduct pre-employment drug-screening effectively, with a decreased potential of drawbacks.
About the Author
Rapiddrugdetection.com is an online store offering drug tests and drug screening products in several formats including blood, urine and oral drug test kit. Rapiddrugdetection.com offers FDA-approved urine drug test as well as DOT-approved alcohol testing products. Some of the popular products are marijuana drug testing kits, breathalyzer, thc drug test kits, employee drug testing kits, and alcohol tester.
50,000 people cite drug abuse as their reason not to work? Is this a valid excuse?
Or just costing the Country £1.5 billion a year? (50,000 x £30,000 pa)
How should we tackle these parasitic criminals?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080227/tuk-uk-britain-drugs-fa6b408_2.html
Anon – £30,000 was a rough cost of all benefits including housing, health care etc. I think this is a low estimate.
I don`t suppose you can work if your of your head , but if you choose that road then you should walk it your self without draging others down it with you.
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