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The vast majority of drug abusers in America have full-time jobs. Drug and alcohol abuse in the workplace often leads to serious accidents, property loss, decreased productivity, and other deleterious effects on the employer, yet most companies have yet to accept the dangers posed by their failure to deal with substance abuse problems. This program details the legal, financial, and psychological costs of ignoring this growing problem.
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Conclusions and Recommendations -- 1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Scope of Alcohol and Other Drug Use -- 2. Etiology of Alcohol and Other Drug Use: An Overview of Potential Causes -- 3. Epidemiological Evidence: The Dimensions of the Problem -- Pt. II. Effects of Use -- 4. Impact of Alcohol and Other Drug Use: Laboratory Studies -- 5. Impact of Alcohol and Other Drug Use: Observational/Field Studies -- Pt. III. Effectiveness of Workplace Interventions...
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Drug testing has become the norm in many workplaces. In order to get a job, potential employees are required to provide their urine for testing. Pissing on Demand examines this phenomenon along with the resulting rise of the anti-drug testing movement, or the "detox industry," that works to beat these tests. Strategies include over-the-counter products like "body flushers" that sound innocent but are really designed to mask the presence of illegal...
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Essays, evaluations of employment creation and training programmes in the USA - examines trends and objectives of employment policies, 1962 to 1980; evaluates subsidy programmes for the unemployed, young workers and minority groups, the supported-work Experiment for the socially disadvantaged (drug abuses, exoffenders, welfare recipients), public service employment, and direct job creation; considers effect on income distribution and full employment;...
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In this impeccably researched book, Rebecca Blank provides the definitive antidote to the scapegoating, guesswork, and outright misinformation of today's welfare debates. Demonstrating that government aid has been far more effective than most people think, she also explains that even private support for the poor depends extensively on public funds. It takes a nation to fight a problem as pervasive and subtle as modern poverty, and this book argues...
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"The New Battle Over Workplace Privacy considers the basic conflict between an employer's right to manage and an employee's right to privacy, discussing such subjects as: random drug testing, searches and surveillance, the release of workplace information to creditors and future employers, monitoring employee use of E-mail and the Internet, using medical records in making employment-related decisions, checking criminal or driving records, and much...
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