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US: Occasional Drug Users Are Fine Employees
Erika Casril Rolling Stone (US)
Thursday 31 Jan 2002 Casual drug users and non-drug users are equally as likely to get and keep a job, according to a recent University of Miami study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "Chronic drug users are more likely to have employment difficulties than casual drug users," says lead researcher Dr. Michael French, "so the economic payoff in the workplace could be much greater if employers and policy- makers focused on the problematic, as opposed to the non- problematic or casual, drug user, in the same way that they focus on the problematic, as opposed to the casual drinker." Although the study did not address drug testing, it supplies ammunition to those who maintain that testing does not prevent unsafe situations, like a school bus driver who doesn't sleep at night. A more reliable method to evaluate current and potential employees, argues Lewis Maltbly, president of the National Workrights Institute, is performance testing, which checks a person's vision, reflexes and coordination. "The evidence generally shows that drug testing does little or nothing to improve safety and productivitiy," he says.
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