Category Archives: Phoenix Drug Testing

Fatal car crashes involving pot use have tripled in U.S.

The movement toward marijuana legalization makes these findings extremely important. People downplay the negative effects that marijuana have on our body and don't want to admit the serious traffic safety consequences. The findings of a recent Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health report found that fatal crashes involving...
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Portable pot vaporizers dubbed ‘the iPod of getting baked’ by Rolling Stone

Portable pot vaporizers known as 'vapes' or 'pocket hookahs' are encouraging minors to smoke marijuana because they make it so easy to hide. Marijuana users fill the chambers of the vaporizers with dried weed or with butter, waxes or oils processed from marijuana. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520585/Portable-pot-vaporizers-encourage-minors-smoke-marijuana.html...
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FMCSA Hours-of-Service rules negatively impacting company’s finances and operations

Significant impacts are affecting companies and employees since the FMCSA implemented those changes July 1, 2013. As seen in the ATRI findings these operational and economic impacts have been negative. http://atri-online.org/2013/11/18/atri-study-identifies-significant-operational-and-economic-impacts-from-new-hours-of-service-rules/...
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Hair Testing Proposal For DOT Requirements

This would be a great option for trucking companies since a large number of them already opt to perform hair testing in addition to DOT required urine lab testing because they are able to get a better snapshot of their new applicants drug use. This new proposal would eliminate the cost of performing two different...
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