So that explains this.
Posted on 05/15/2005 7:44:01 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
NEW YORK (AP) -- Employers are catching more workers using methamphetamine, but the drug’s spread into the workplace appears to have slowed considerably, a new study finds.
Employers who screen job applicants and workers for drugs saw the number testing positive for amphetamines increase by 6 percent last year. Positive tests for methamphetamine, one of two stimulants in that class of drugs, increased by 3 percent, according to a report to be released Monday by Quest Diagnostics Inc.
The figures are based on the results of 7.2 million workplace drug tests conducted in 2004 by Teterboro, N.J.-based Quest, one of the country’s largest drug screening firms.
The limited increase contrasts sharply with 2003, when the number of workers testing positive for all amphetamines surged 44 percent and those failing the test for methamphetamine jumped 68 percent.
The percentage of workers testing positive for all drugs was unchanged at 4.5 percent. Of workers who tested positive, 55 percent failed the screening for marijuana, 15 percent for cocaine and 10 percent for amphetamines.
The popularity of methamphetamine has surged in recent years, prompting many states to try to limit the sales of the decongestant pseudoephedrine that is commonly used to make it.
But even as officials have worked to crack down on the manufacture and sale of the drug and encourage treatment, drug users have proven persistently creative at cheating on workplace tests. Such cheating will be the topic Tuesday of a hearing by a House of Representatives subcommittee.
A survey on methamphetamine use by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration showed 5.7 percent of people older than 26 said they had used the drug.
“It’s just a little too soon for us to know what it (the workplace testing data) means,” said Leah Young, a spokeswoman for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
So that explains this.
BTW: Are more people using meth because it is cheap, because it is easy to come across/make (some fool was shown on the news getting arrested with a freakin' meth lab in the trunk of his car), or because a meth high is better than say a coke/heroin high? Just curious because it seems meth is becoming the drug of choice for many allegedly 'non-risk' kids. What is the impetus behind its frenetic surge?
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LOL. I'd seriously love to know why someone ....anyone.... would purchase an Aztek. Seeing one on the road never fails to get me smiling like i was in some ad for toothpaste or something. Azteks are humor on wheels.
Encountering meth addicts is such a sad experience :(
The meth craze will end just like the crack epidemic... with the ugly death of the participants.
That's the pic i saw. Might you know the time differential between the two pics. Thanks.
That's frightening.
I smoked a lot of pot, did a little coke and even a little acid when I was a youngster but I'm damned glad I stayed away from that kind of stuff. Even happier I wised up and quit the other stuff.
I am simply astounded by the changes. That is just so insane as to be beyond words (one has to SEE the pics to comprehend just how extreme the morphing is)! Thanks for the pics.
I feel so sad for them. Which is interesting because I normally do not feel much for drug abusers, but the amorphous vacuum that is their eyes (they seem to have no substance therein) just breaks my heart. One can almost see their souls getting leached ....literally being sucked out of them. Sad.
Wow!
Does wonders for the complexion! /sarc
That said, I hope that woman got help for her problem.
Nasty stuff.
If I'm not mistaken, that's actually a photo of the "improved, toned-down" Aztek. It's obviously still butt-ugly, though.
Grrr. Just make it a schedule 1 narcotic, and make it by prescription only if they want to control it. But no.... the lawmakers have to infringe on all to control a small number.
Knowing someone firsthand from their start into the meth scene at my work, it was like seeing a trainwreck in slomo. First symptom was stubborness, insubordination over stupid stuff. Then onto lying about tasks performed (which weren't). Finally he couldn't make it to work and it was ALWAYS somebody elses fault. Everything was somebody elses fault. Then he lost his job. Then the family. Now in prison after numerous chances to reform.
Amazing he isn't in the graveyard.
The Aztec is truly the ugliest car in history.
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