Acton, Massachusetts, November 5, 2012 — Psychemedics Corporation (NASDAQ:PMD) today announced third quarter financial results for the period ended September 30, 2012. The Company also announced a quarterly dividend of $0.15 per share payable to shareholders of record as of November 15, 2012 to be paid on November 28, 2012. This will be the Company’s…

GREAT FALLS- A national survey of drug use and health shows that Montana ranks among the top ten states for illicit drug and alcohol use. Psychiatric nurse practitioner Shelley Andous helps clients experiencing an acute psychiatric crisis, often related to addiction. “Substances hit a particular part of our brain. It hits that pleasure center…it’s what…

Possibly driven by a surge in painkiller abuse, the number of drug and alcohol problems diagnosed by U.S. doctors increased by 70 percent between 2001 and 2009, according to new research. “We know that increases in prescription drug use are a big part of what’s going on nationally. I also think – in our study…

The discipline you’ve seen this season with Arizona State football doesn’t end on the playing field. First-year coach Todd Graham makes sure it blankets all areas, and that includes testing for street and performance-enhancing drugs. Per school policy, ASU randomly drug tests its student-athletes 12 months a year, but the athletic department leaves it up…

Car owners will face mandatory annual testing for illegal drugs under a bill submitted by a United Russia deputy to the State Duma on Monday. The bill, drafted by Irina Yarovaya, chairwoman of the Duma’s Security and Anti-Corruption Committee, calls for the drug tests to be administered to drivers of all kinds of vehicles, police…

Applying to work for a Fortune 500 company? The odds are pretty good that you’ll be subject to drug testing before hire. And there’s a decent chance that Acton-based Psychemedics Corp. will conduct the test. Psychemedics specializes in highly-sensitive hair tests that determine if a potential employee uses drugs. Its patented test, which has been…

Jaclyn Kinkade, a 23-year-old doctor’s-office receptionist and occasional model, was a casualty of America’s No. 1 drug menace when she overdosed and died, alone, in a tumbledown clapboard house in Dunnellon, Fla. The drugs that killed her didn’t come from the Colombian jungles or an Afghan poppy field. Two of the three drugs found in…

Nearly 1 in 12 injured workers who were prescribed narcotic painkillers still were on the drugs three to six months later, according to a new report on worker’s compensation claims. The report also found that drug testing and psychological evaluation, two measures designed to reduce abuse of the drugs, were not being done most of…

(CN) – The Boston police department’s use of a hair test to detect officers’ drug use does not discriminate against black officers, a federal judge ruled. Ten Boston police officers and the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers sued the Boston Police Department, arguing that using a hair drug test has a disparate impact…

Teenagers who smoke or drink are two to three times more likely to abuse prescription painkillers later on in life, new research shows. Researchers from Yale University analyzed information collected from young adults aged 18 to 25 from the 2006-2008 U.S. National Survey on Drug Use and Health. About 12 percent of the young adults…