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Meanwhile, NTSB pushes for lower BAC limit and other alcohol-related rule changes for motorists While the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) newly released report on actions needed to eliminate alcohol-impaired driving by motorists has naturally garnered much media attention this week, the American Trucking Assns.(ATA) is prodding the Dept. of Transportation to take action to…

Gov. Tom Corbett was right when he said Pennsylvania employers can’t find anybody who has passed a drug test, business leaders said Thursday. At least that’s the consensus among the PA Chamber of Business and Industry, the Pennsylvania Business Council, the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association and the National Federation of Independent Business. The organizations held a…

Protecting our kids is a parent’s primary responsibility. I’ve yet to meet an adult who would disagree that parents or other responsible adults are in the first position to protect, provide and care for our youth. So the question becomes, how far do we go to protect our kids — even when it may be…

In November, Colorado and Washington passed state initiatives by vote to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Washington’s “Initiative 502,” now on the books as RCWA 69.50.4013, went into effect on Dec. 6, 2012, and Colorado’s “Amendment 64,” now C.R.S.A. Const. Art.18, §16, will go into effect on Jan. 5, 2013. Both new laws regulate…

KANSAS CITY, MO. When students return for the fall semester at Rockhurst High School, they will be subject to random and mandatory drug testing- not as a way to police the student body, Principal Greg Harkness says, but rather to promote holistic health. “It isn’t about testing our students to catch them, it’s about providing…

DECLARES 67th CONSECUTIVE QUARTERLY DIVIDEND ACTON, Mass., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Psychemedics Corporation (NASDAQ: PMD) today announced first quarter financial results for the period ended March 31, 2013. The Company also announced a quarterly dividend of $0.15 per share payable to shareholders of record as of May 17, 2013 to be paid on May…

Teen abuse and misuse of prescription drugs has increased by 33 percent nationally during the past four years, but improper use of prescription pain relievers — a serious public health concern in Ohio — might have peaked, according to survey findings released Tuesday by the Partnership at Drugfree.org and the MetLife Foundation. The annual Partnership…

Almost everyone offered a new job these days knows that even before you begin worrying whether someone will invite you to lunch on your first day, you’re probably going to have to head to the restroom and pee in a cup as part of the pre-employment drug screening. These tests, which became commonplace during the…

Rancho Cucamonga, CA – May 6 2013: Today the California Supreme Court ruled, by a 7-0 vote, that local governments have the right to ban pot stores; a major blow to the drug legalization movement in the state. We have waited a very long time for this day. Coalition for a Drug Free California has…

HICKORY N.C. — Time was when you heard about someone overdosing it usually meant they had ingested or injected too much illicit narcotics. Now, when you hear someone has overdosed the likely culprit could just as easily be prescription drugs. Overdose deaths from prescription pain killers now exceed both heroine and cocaine overdose deaths, with…