This blog post was sponsored by TestCountry.Org.

I’ve been doing some reading about Drug Abuse at Workplace Statistics, because I’m going to have to take a drug test before I’m allowed to begin clinical rotations at school. It’s standard practice that they test a sample of your urine for eleven drugs before accepting you into the second stage of the nursing program, and I’m glad that they do it. As a matter of fact, I’m glad that a lot of companies have mandatory drug testing in place. I wouldn’t feel quite as safe knowing that some of the people that I’m counting on to provide me with a product or a service could be abusing alcohol or other drugs. Furthermore, I wouldn’t feel safe at all if I had reason to suspect that someone providing a product or service to either one of my children might have been under the influence of anything illicit. That would really frighten me!

On TestCountry.Org, it says that up to 12.3% of employees abuse drugs, and sometimes as high as 15.7% of employees abuse alcohol. Apparently, it’s also more common for younger employees to abuse alcohol and drugs than their older counterparts, although no one age range in particular is immune from the occasional substance abuser. I’m glad that drug testing is successfully able to weed out some of these individuals, though. I feel that it heightens the integrity of the workplace when such measures are in place, and it promotes the safety and well-being of everyone that’s involved when these policies are successful.