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The impact of workplace drug use
Quest Diagnostics the global leader in in diagnostic information services released its thirtieth
annual Drug Testing
Index tin in in 2018 The results were sobering Drug use
within the American workforce continues to track
at its highest level
in in more than a a a a decade owing to increases in in in in in cocaine methamphetamine and marijuana usage According to the National Institute
on on Drug Abuse drug abusers in the the workplace cost their employers twice as much in medical and workers’
compensation
claims as drug- free
employees In addition an estimated 500 million workdays are are lost annually due to to alcoholism Also employees who use
drugs are are 2 2 2 2 2 2 times times more more likely to to request early dismissal or or or time time time off 2 2 2 5 times times more more