As a business leader, you need to keep an eye out for signs of drug use in your workplace. But looking after the health and safety of your employees can be a real challenge. You need to have a reliable system of identifying evidence of drug abuse and how to properly address it.
Here’s our quick and simple guide on how to spot tell-tale signs of drug abuse in your workers.
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When advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi launched its Stoner Sloth campaign for the NSW government, it wasn’t probably expecting the ads to go viral on social media. Neither did they expect it to be widely mocked, but mockery is what the entire campaign seems to be receiving lately.
Every dangerous drug has its own archive of horror stories involving its users, abusers and addicts. Synthetic drugs, however, are in a league of their own as far as horrific tales are concerned. In a nutshell, most incidents that involve synthetic drugs—synthetic marijuana in particular—are marked not so much by the consequences of repeated or prolonged use, but by the sudden and often unpredictable nature of its effects, which sometimes set in even after just ONE hit. That makes more synthetic marijuana more dangerous than ice, heroin or any of the “traditional” drugs we have all come to despise, as the synthetic marijuana horror stories we are featuring in this piece would attest.
Before we delve into the synthetic marijuana horror stories listed below, let us first take a closer look at the drug and see why it poses such a danger to anyone who uses it.
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A woman who showed up at a police station in the Northern Territory to answer bail was promptly arrested after police discovered she was driving a stolen car with drugs inside into the station, says Xavier La Canna in a report for ABC News.
It’s hard enough to deal with a close friend or family member who has a drug problem. In most cases, you can expect a lot of drama—and even violence in some cases—if and when you muster enough courage to stage an intervention and convince your drug-addicted loved one to get help. So you can only imagine how much harder helping a drug addict can be if that person is someone you work with.
Helping a colleague with a drug problem is, without a doubt, a daunting task for anyone in the workplace. However, no one can deny that it’s an issue that needs to be immediately addressed. Ignore the problem, and you can only expect your colleague’s drug issues to have an impact on the productivity, health and safety of the entire workplace.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pledged to provide a $300 million funding for drug treatment services as part of its campaign against the ice epidemic gripping the nation, says Siobhan Fogarty in a report for ABC News.
The idea of your children going to music festivals and raves is no more unusual than when you went to underground music or even disco clubs when you were their age. They’re young, free and single, they’re going to have whatever it is they consider “fun” these days, and you’ll be as helpless as your own parents were when you went home from your nights out at the break of dawn. Partying when you’re young is perfectly normal, regardless of what generation you belong.
However, there is a major difference between our generation and this generation with regards to partying, and that’s the proliferation of party drugs at raves, which, more often than not, leads to incidents you certainly wouldn’t want your kids to get involved in.
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Many small towns in Australia have already been overrun by crystal meth or ice, but the residents of one such town in New South Wales have learned how to fight back, says Jonathan Pearlman in a report for The Telegraph.