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, affecting almost every essential organ of our body. The brain is one of those organs, and researchers from Harvard University have been the first to see the effect of cocaine on the brain according to William J. Cromie for The Harvard University Gazette.
AGL has announced that it will ramp up drug and alcohol testing among power station workers, according to an ABC report.
The world of sports has never been a stranger to drug-related controversies, but if Power CEO Keith Thomas gets his way, the Port Adelaide Football Club will never get caught up in anything like that.
In a move that could only be seen as a reversal on its long-running stance against workplace drug testing, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) is now pushing for mandatory drug and alcohol testing on building sites.
In Australia, a good number of job applicants are failing the pre-employment drug tests many employers are implementing for their companies. As it turns out, the same is true in neighbouring New Zealand, specifically in the city of Wanganui, according to a report by Regan Schoultz for the Wanganui Chronicle.
The 44-year-old truck driver who rear-ended another truck on the Hume Freeway last week has tested positive for drugs according to local police, says Patrick Hatch in a report for The Age.
A report by Kristian Silva for The Brisbane Times reveals that over the last two years, almost a dozen train drivers and guards working for Queensland Rail have failed workplace drug and alcohol tests.
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed a labour union’s attempt to block a coal exporting facility’s decision to adopt both urine and saliva drug tests for their workplace drug testing programs, and in effect declared that dual testing deters drug use in the workplace better than a single-method regime.