Businesses aren’t immune from the drug epidemic that’s hitting central Ohio hard.
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Opioid Crisis at Work
Emergency On Opioid Crisis Now
We are writing today urging President Trump to heed the advice of the bipartisan White House Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis and declare the opioid epidemic a National Emergency.
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Too Drugged-Out to Work
A slew of reports finds a fresh reason for the chronic inability of American companies to fill skilled jobs: not a lack of skills, and hence a training-and-education crisis, but a surfeit of drug abuse, per the NYT's Nelson Schwartz. Simply put, prime-working age Americans without a college diploma are often too drugged-out to get the best jobs. Opioids remain at high levels, but the surge in drug use is now heroin and the powerful contaminant fentanyl.
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The opioid crisis is draining America of workers
CNN Money | Patrick Gillespie | July 27, 2017
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The opioid crisis is draining America of workers
The opioid epidemic has crippled communities across the United States, spurred a public health crisis, and is responsible for nearly 100 overdose deaths each day. Opioid abuse is also hurting America's job market. Use of opioids has become...Drug Test Takes Toll
Just a few miles from where President Trump will address his blue-collar base here Tuesday night, exactly the kind of middle-class factory jobs he has vowed to bring back from overseas are going begging.
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Can’t Fire Workers for Medical Marijuana
Massachusetts companies cannot fire employees who have a prescription for medical marijuana simply because they use the drug
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