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Test kits weed out unwanted job applicants.(End Page)(Brief article)
Business Insurance, March, 2007
Marijuana and amphetamine users may be avoiding employers that test for illegal drugs like vampires avoid silver crosses. An index released last week by Quest Diagnostics Inc., which manufacturers workplace test kits, shows that drug use by U.S. employees and job applicants has dropped to its lowest level since 1998, when Quest began keeping score.
Of 9 million workplace urine drug tests performed by Lyndhurst, N.J.-based Quest during 2006, only 3.8% uncovered positive results. That is down from 4.1% in 2005 and 13.6% in 1988. Quest's 2006 Drug Testing Index showed amphetamine use dropped 20% during the past year to a new low of 0.28% among safety-sensitive workers who must be routinely tested for drugs according to federal mandates. Of those tested in...
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