Effects of Drugs and Alcohol in Your Career

June 12th, 2011 by

This article will give you information on the problems of using drugs and their effects on health and work. The amount of medicinal information available is inadequate. Most people understand that medicines are not good, but they do not always think about how the consequences of medicine uses can affect their work.

This is not a replacement for substance mistreatment. If a person is having problems related to the misuse of medicines, he or she should be referred to a qualified substance abuse expert. This guidance is only designed as an educational program for employment seekers. The medicines that will be discussed in this topic are alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and illicit (marijuana, cocaine, heroine, LSD, etc.) medicines as complete group.

Begin the lesson by discussing medicine tests at work. Inform trainees that employers have the right to test for illegal medicine use. More than 70 per cent of illegal medicine users are employed. Of people who called a drugs help line, 70 per cent indicated they used cocaine while working, 60 per cent reported that medicines unfavorably affected their job performance, and 15-18 per cent had stolen from employers to support their medicine habit. Medicine using employees at General Motors average 30-40 sick days per year compared to 4-5 sick days for non users. Researches found that substance abuse is the number one health problem in the country.

When employees fail to work, they need to pay sick days and overtime for replacement employees. Deprived performance leads to work not getting done on time and bad quality. When products and services are not done properly, they need to be done over. Repeating any procedure costs money. Workplace injuries cost organizations a lot of money in avoidance program, employee’s compensation, and replacement employees. All of these factors lead to higher cost. High costs leads to money being spent on training new employees.

The bad effects of alcohol and illegal medicine use should be discussed. Use of alcohol or illegal medicines while working is definitely related to bad performance and accidents. Long-term abuse of alcohol or illegal medicines is linked to health problems such as heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and liver disease. Even occasional parting the night before office can impact a person’s job. Calling in sick and bad job performance when at work can affect a person’s job evaluations and opportunities to move forward in the organization.

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A Brief History of Heroin in America

November 28th, 2011 by

In the late 1800s, opium was a popular, commonly available drug. Drug users frequented opium dens which dotted the ‘Wild West’ region of America. It was smuggled in and sold by Chinese immigrants who came here to work on the railroads.

There is a typical picture of the western cowboy drowning himself in whiskey at a bar after a rough ride on the dirt roads. It was more likely however, that he was prostrate in a dimly lit room, smoking opium in the arms of an oriental prostitute. They often spent several nights and days at these dens, smoking opium, until eventually, their bodies became addicted to it.

Alcoholism, however, was a bigger problem in those days and opium was used as a cure for alcohol addiction.

In 1810, morphine, a derivative of opium, was developed as a pain killer. It eliminated pain caused by medical operations and severe injuries. Soon after it was administered, it produced an intense, dream-like state of euphoria. Hence, it came to be christened “morphine”, after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. It was hailed by doctors as a miraculous cure for pain and used extensively and freely. In the euphoria however, its detrimental addictive properties went unnoticed until after the Civil War.

Thousands of soldiers became morphine addicts during the civil war and within a span of ten years since its invention America was in the grip of a major morphine epidemic.

In 1874, a British chemist working in London invented a new drug. Bayer of Germany registered it as a trademark under the name “Heroin”. Shortly, it was imported into America and aggressively marketed to doctors and their patients as a “safe, non-addictive” substitute for morphine. For the next several decades, it was sold legally all over the country by drug companies.

Eventually, in 1920, the US Congress passed the Dangerous Drug Act, banning the sale of heroin over the counter and making its distribution federally regulated. However, it was too late already. Tens of thousands of citizens had already been addicted and a market for heroin had been created. Today this market still exists and is, in fact, ever growing.

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Why You Need to Get Those Coupons

October 31st, 2011 by

 

What these verizon wireless promotional code and coupons really are? How do they work to the best of your purposes? Why do you need such codes and coupons? Why do you need such promotional codes and coupons from this said company and not from the other companies? How can you be benefited, really be benefited, from those promotional coupons and codes? In short, what can you really truly get from them all?

 

Find out all of the answers to all of those good questions with the help of your internet connection. You must want to know what those coupons and codes really are and what they could do to you. You know already that all coupons give the price off to some items, but how much off price you could get actually for even one single coupon?

 

Surely, those and other questions intrigue you a lot. You realize what company is offering you the coupons, right? And you do know how trustable and worthy this company judged by their related experiences in years of their services. Now, when such trustable company is offering you their promotional codes and coupons, you certainly know how serious they are in making the best advantage for yourself, right?

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