Opiate Testing and Safety Concerns for Employers

The opioid epidemic presents serious opiate testing safety challenges for employers. And most employers don't test for many commonly abused opioids. In 2018, the federal government added what is called "expanded opiates" to the DOT drug test panel. The expanded panel now includes many commonly prescribed pain killers and the result has been an [...]

What You Probably Don’t Know About Opioids in the Workplace

"Drug overdoses, predominately from opioids, now exceed car crashes as the leading cause of unintentional death."  --National Safety Council In its publication “The proactive role employers can take: OPIOIDS IN THE WORKPLACE,” The National Safety Council describes, “a disturbing trend The Growing Concern of Opioids in the Workplace [which] has [...]