Workers’ Drug Use Burdens US Factories
Factories are busy places, especially those that operate on a 24-hour production basis. Unlike office work, factory work requires that all personnel — from the factory floor staff to the managers — approach their jobs as methodically, purposefully, and focused as they can make it. One slip up, and the results could be disastrous. The products being produced could come up as defective. Worse, people could get hurt, lose a limb, or even lose their lives, what with all the heavy machinery that’s being operated all around. (more…)
If you think substituting e-cigarettes for real cigarettes is a healthier choice, a new study is suggesting otherwise. The study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, says e-cigarettes could actually serve as a gateway drug to users which will make them more likely to use and get hooked on cocaine and other illicit drugs.
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Despite the skyrocketing prices of cocaine and other illicit drugs in Australia, Australian drug users continue to patronise the substances, essentially paying some of the highest prices for drugs in the world, according to an article on Stoney Roads.
The use of crystal meth, or better known in Australia as ”ice”, is everywhere, but it appears to be more rampant in Victoria, according to a report by 9News.com, which calls ice use in that part of the country an “epidemic”.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld the decision of Lyndons Pty Ltd to terminate the employment of a worker who confessed to being a long-term cannabis user and subsequently tested positive for the substance.
Illicit drugs like cocaine, heroin, and ice are inherently dangerous. They wreak havoc on the brain, heart, liver, and other vital organs in the body. They alter how a person looks or acts. They destroy lives. For that very reason, governments have declared them illegal, and rightly so. Severe punishments await those caught violating laws related to these substances.
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