"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."George Santayana
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America Health Watch
America loves fast food. Last year, consumers spent billions of dollars on the hamburger industry alone. Corporate giants such as McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Burger King all boast of multi-million dollar incomes each year. Why? Because their foods are ...
How to Effectively Overcome and Beat Drug Addictions
Overcoming a drug addiction is not something that is done overnight. It takes time and perserverence in order to succeed. For example, the average smoker has to attempt quitting 8 times before they quit permenantly! Nicotine is considered one of the most ...
Petroleum and Cosmetics: What are the potential health risks?
What is petroleum?Crude oil, sometimes called petroleum, is a fossil fuel that was produced deep in the earth through a process that took millions of years to complete.Millions of years later, almost all of us come into contact with a derivative of ...
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Drug testing is a big business. With at least fifteen large U.S. corporations supplying laboratory testing, employees and others are only a few minutes’ drive from a testing facility. From employers who use drug testing as a pre-employment screening tool to parents who want to keep tabs on the well being of their teenagers, there are many groups that frequently use drug testing as a screening mechanism.
Since the mid-1980’s, drug testing has become more and more common. Probably the group that is tested most often is prospective employees. With strict workplace safety legislation and the fact that employees can use dangerous equipment or have access to sensitive information, employers want to be certain that their employees are not drug abusers. With a sample of urine, hair, blood or swab from the mouth, drug-testing laboratories can often product positive or negative results within 24 to 48 hours.
Recently, drug abuse testing has become increasingly common in professional athletics. With the controversies surrounding the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, athletes are under a great deal of scrutiny. The government has also stepped in, and has begun to implement stricter controls and more frequent
screening of athletes. A positive result on a drug test can result in penalties such as fines, loss of game time, or complete dismissal from the team. It is safe to say that drug-abusing athletes are taking huge risks with their careers by abusing performance or other illegal drugs.
Opponents of drug testing argue that it violates a person’s rights to privacy. They hold that even if an employee is a recreational drug user, it does not necessarily follow that his or her work will be affected. With random drug testing gaining popularity in the workforce, one may literally be drawn out of a hat as the next one up for a drug screening. While states only loosely enforce drug-testing laws, opponents say that random drug testing can ruin a person’s life. Even recreational weekend usage may result in the loss of employment if the drug usage is determined with a drug test. Random drug testing is often argued to be testing without any probable cause. Drug Testing Info provides detailed information about employee, random, high school, hair, and urine drug testing and drug testing kits. Drug Testing Info is the sister site of Prescription Drugs Addiction Web.
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 Test targets sport drugs cheats - BBC Health
Although only a handful of athletes at the Beijing Olympics themselves tested positive for banned substances, many anti-doping specialists are suspicious that as-yet unidentified performance-enhancing drugs may have been in use. Although there is no ...
Drugs could help fix broken bones - Channel 4 News
Drugs could in future be used to trick the body into repairing itself with bone marrow stem cells, a study suggests. British scientists believe the technique could one day be used to mend damaged hearts or fix broken bones. The research shows that it ...
Ahead of the games: Test will catch sports cheats on new endurance ... - Science Centric
Avoiding detection just got harder for drug cheats who try to use a particular range of untested, but potentially enhancing, compounds. In the past, tests have been developed once a drug is known to be in circulation. Now a German research team has ...
Allen 'does not condone drugs use' - yorkshirepost
Lily Allen has hit back at claims that she condoned the use of illegal drugs. The 23-year-old Fear singer hit the headlines after reportedly telling The Word magazine that she knew people who managed to take recreational drugs and carry on with their ...
Tajik border guards seized over 900 kg of illicit drugs in 2008 - RIA Novosti
DUSHANBE, January 8 (RIA Novosti) - Tajik border guards seized 916 kilograms of illegal drugs, including 110 kg of heroin, in 2008, which is almost twice the amount seized in 2007, a Tajik border guard department spokesman said Thursday. Khushnud ...
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