Drug Abuse in the News
9/4/2010
NADA for quick trial of dope-tainted athletes
The National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) Friday said it will request the anti-doping disciplinary panel to expedite the trial of Indian athletes, who have tested positive in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games, once the outcome of their ‘B’ samples are known by Saturday evening. NADA director-general Rahul Bhatnagar also said they have asked Wrestling [...]
9/4/2010
Commercial pilot sentenced for drug-masking powder
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A former US Airways Express pilot will spend nine months in prison for selling a powdered drink mix over the Internet that he claimed was “100 percent” effective in helping drug-using truck drivers, pilots and train engineers pass federally mandated drug tests. U.S. District Judge David Cercone on Friday rejected a request [...]
9/4/2010
Knights warn players of drug-test blitz
NEWCASTLE players have been warned they face a drug-testing blitz over the next month as the club takes steps to ensure a trouble-free off-season. On the eve of his side’s final game of the season against Melbourne, coach Rick Stone told his players to prepare for the unexpected with a series of random tests planned. [...]
8/31/2010
Hawthorn player on third strike
Hawthorn’s Travis Tuck is the first AFL player to be publicly outed by the league after failing three drug tests. Tuck, the son of Hawks’ legend Michael Tuck, was found unconscious in possession of drug paraphenalia in a car at the south-east Melbourne suburb of Berwick late Friday night. In a statement released today, the [...]
8/30/2010
Medical marijuana users can be fired
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) — Only one of the 14 U.S. states that have legalized medical marijuana protects users from being fired if they fail a drug test, a lawyer says. Cynthia Estlund, who teaches labor law at New York University, told The New York Times employers are not required to dismiss marijuana users either. [...]
8/27/2010
Holland council sends drug test kits
Dutch parents in the council area of Edam-Volendam are receiving kits in order to test teenagers for drug use. The local council has announced it will deliver free drugs test kits to 1,500 local families as a preventative measure against teenage use of cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine, heroin, morphine and codeine and PCP, which is also [...]
8/27/2010
Legislature supports drug tests for public benefit applicants
Niagara County lawmakers voted 19-0 Tuesday night for a resolution, introduced by Lewiston Republican John D. Ceretto, which calls on local state legislators to stop bottling up a bill that would require drug-testing of welfare and Medicaid applicants. The resolution calls on members of Niagara County’s state delegation that sit in the majority in the [...]
8/24/2010
Marlins C Paulino suspended for positive drug test
MIAMI ? Marlins catcher Ronny Paulino has been suspended 50 games by Major League Baseball for testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance. Paulino’s suspension begins immediately. The Marlins are scheduled to host the Houston Astros on Friday night. Paulino says he used a dietary pill to control his weight this season and recently learned it [...]
8/20/2010
Why pre-employment drug screening is important to the employer
If you have been on a job search recently, you may have noticed that many employers now require that you take a pre-employment drug test. You have to pass the drug test in order to acquire the job that you are seeking. Many people think that this is an unnecessary step for an employer to [...]
8/20/2010
Houston Area School to Drug Test Students
Random drug testing isn’t unusual at private schools, but it’s new for public schools in the Houston area. The policy change is a direct result of a drug bust at Columbia High School last April. Sixteen students were charged with felonies after undercover officers discovered they were selling everything from marijuana to cocaine. That was [...]
8/20/2010
500 Tamaqua students tested for drugs
More than 500 Tamaqua Area High School students have been tested for drug or alcohol use. While Assistant District Superintendent Raymond J. Kinder declined to speak publicly on whether any students tested positive for illicit drugs or alcohol during the four days of mandatory testing conducted at the school earlier this month, he did say [...]
8/20/2010
Altru to begin random drug tests for employees
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) _ The largest health care provider in the Grand Forks region is starting a random drug and alcohol testing policy for all employees. Altru Health System says it will implement the policy Sept. 1. It will cover about 4,000 workers, including nearly 200 physicians. Altru Chief Executive Officer Dave Molmen says [...]
8/14/2010
Baxi staff in drug probe
Up to 19 workers have been suspended from a Lancashire firm after failing random drug tests. The employees, believed to be boiler assembly workers at the Baxi site in Bamber Bridge, near Preston, were called in for drug testing around two weeks ago. It is understood the company, which employs around 120 people, called in [...]
8/12/2010
Tougher drug testing for CIS
Canadian university football players– including the UBC T-Birds — are facing tougher testing for performance-enhancing drugs. Canadian Interuniversity Sport, the CFL and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport announced the measures. The CCES announced Tuesday that two players — from the University of Windsor and Acadia — failed offseason tests in June. The new [...]
8/12/2010
Salem begins drug test program for student-athletes, others in competitive activities
Salem City Schools has begun a two-year random drug testing program for athletes and other students involved in competitive Virginia High School League extracurricular activities. Students in grades seven through 12 at Salem High School and Andrew Lewis Middle School will be tested for alcohol, nicotine and a variety of other drugs including marijuana, methamphetamines [...]