Drugs And Their Effects On Business

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This will
cost a company in worthless merchandise and unhappy customers who most
likely will not use their products again. A worker with a drug problem also
misses more days, on sick leave, compared to a worker without a drug
problem.
The most logical reason for drug abuse is the accessibility of
drugs at work and in society. If drugs are so accessible then of course
there are going to be abusers. The government has tried to stop the flow of
drugs inside the United States, but they haven't had any overwhelming
success. Cocaine is becoming more popular because it provides an intense
high that gives the user the feeling he/she can do anything, and cocaine is
easily hid and used. Workers have devised many ways to use and move drugs
through a company, such as sending drugs through normal interoffice
messenger services, or switching drugs with medicine bottles and using them
in front of everyone. Executives with their own offices have an even easier
time taking drugs ...

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into using drugs. Catching
more secretive drug users with drugs on them, because they are clever or
are just weekend users of drugs is more difficult. Companies have to
physically search the employee's body, which raises a lot of controversy.
Urine testing gives rise to most discontent because of its humiliating way
of getting a sample. Blood testing has its own problems because of the
discomfort of a needle extracting blood. Because of the problems of
conventional testing for controlled substances in the body's chemical tract,
medical professionals have been coming up with new methods for testing the
body to see if there are drugs present. One of the newest types of drug
testing is the ...

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