Workplace drug abuse policy.

[Drugs and alcohol in the workplace].

1. In response to increased costs of drug abuse due to decreased productivity by impaired workers, many corporations, either voluntarily or under federal mandate, have adopted a drug free workplace policy. 2. The main components of an anti-drug program include: management commitment, development of a drug free workplace policy, separate training programs for supervisors and employees, an Employ...

Workplace drug abuse policy: A comment

McGuire and Ruhm (1993) develop an interesting and policy-relevant model of workplace drug abuse policy. They examine workers’ choice to undergo treatment (rehabilitation) for substance abuse and firms’ choice of drug-testing policies, concluding that ‘labor market incentives will generally lead to too little treatment and too much testing’. Drug addicts are assumed to have a ‘high’ probability...

Prevalence of workplace abuse and sexual harassment among female faculty and staff.

OBJECTIVES To determine the one year prevalence of workplace abuse and sexual harassment and to determine the extent of their associations with symptoms of depression. METHODS A total of 387 female faculty and staff from colleges in Awassa, Ethiopia completed a self-administered questionnaire which collected information about relationships, mood and feelings, thoughts and satisfaction concern...

Public policy statement on drug testing in workplace settings.

Analysis of Implement-Criminal Policy Discourses to Control Drug Abuse

Objective: In this study, implement-criminal policy discourses to control drug abuse were analyzed. Method: The present research was descriptive-analytical and the data were collected in the form of a library research from books, dissertations and articles. Results: This study showed that due to the transfer of enforcement to various executive agents, the implement-criminal policy governing dru...