<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:34:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Drug Testing News</title><description></description><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/</link><managingEditor>Detox For Less</managingEditor><openSearch:itemsPerPage>15</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114598244094272667</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:27:20 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T09:27:20.953-07:00</atom:updated><title>Drug screening can make the workplace safer</title><atom:summary type='text'>South Florida Business Journal - April 14, 2006 Drug screening programs may reduce workplace accidents and
disruptions in employee productivity, but instituting these programs
isn't one-size-fits-all. 

 Businesses have many options to choose from, both in testing and
policy, while ensuring they meet state guidelines and discourage
litigation. To work properly, the testing must be combined with
</atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/drug-screening-can-make-workplace.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114598195140305072</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:19:11 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T09:19:11.410-07:00</atom:updated><title>
25 April 2006
      

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25 April 2006
      

One in five (20 per cent) of young motorists take to the road every day
while high on illegal drugs, according to the RAC Foundation and Max
Power Magazine - revealing the shocking results of a new survey.

The survey, carried out by Max Power magazine and published in the May edition, found that:-

20% of those surveyed say they "drug drive" every single day 
44% regularly</atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/blog-post.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114598152902403812</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:12:09 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T09:12:09.026-07:00</atom:updated><title>Tribe begins random drug tests</title><atom:summary type='text'>By the Associated Press 

 10:22 a.m. -- BELCOURT  ``(Drug use)
is a major concern of the people in the community, to try to get people
to turn away from this,'' LaFountain said.
</atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/tribe-begins-random-drug-tests.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114598117279949800</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:06:12 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T09:06:12.800-07:00</atom:updated><title>Senate passes bill to require drug testing for coal miners</title><atom:summary type='text'>FRANKFORT, Ky. A bill that would force coal miners to undergo random drug testing made it through the Kentucky Senate.The House will have a final say on the measure in a vote.The bill is aimed at improving safety in Kentucky mines by putting workers who abuse drugs off the job.Miners would have to undergo a mandatory test before being hired and then be subject to random tests once they begin </atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/senate-passes-bill-to-require-drug.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114598107433117695</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:04:34 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T09:04:34.333-07:00</atom:updated><title>The agony of post-game drug testing</title><atom:summary type='text'>By MATT WINKELJOHNThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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	It's
become an LSU basketball tradition, win or lose, to pull the trigger on
whatever's happened and move on. The Tigers did it Thursday, after
upsetting Duke.
"It's a piggy bank, but it's shaped like a little toilet, and it has
a flusher," said LSU freshman Tasmin Mitchell. </atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/agony-of-post-game-drug-testing.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114598096141846850</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:02:41 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T09:02:41.426-07:00</atom:updated><title>Are your teens doing drugs? Test them</title><atom:summary type='text'>By RAQUEL RUTLEDGEMilwaukee Journal SentinelDesperate parents dissatisfied with old-school ways of trying to
tell whether their kids are doing drugs — rifling through their
drawers, smelling their breath, searching their eyes — are now instead
demanding proof.
They’re dragging their teens to drug testing labs and buying home testing kits by the case over the Internet.
“I tell my daughter, ‘If you</atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/are-your-teens-doing-drugs-test-them.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114598084969277304</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:00:49 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T09:00:49.696-07:00</atom:updated><title>Drug Testing: Violations jump</title><atom:summary type='text'>WADAWADAThe World Anti-Doping Agency recorded 63 drug-testing
violations among 3,114 athletes tested in 2005 - a 2-per-cent rate
that was double the previous year. The agency said athletes were
tested in 40 sports and 119 countries as part of its global
out-of-competition doping control program last year. The testing
covered world championships in track, swimming and weightlifting. In
addition to</atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/drug-testing-violations-jump.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114598042928568758</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:53:49 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T08:53:49.286-07:00</atom:updated><title> Prosecutor can test cops for drugs</title><atom:summary type='text'>uesday, April 25, 2006
    

    By RICHARD COWENSTAFF WRITER    
    
    
    
    			  				
    
    
        	
    
    
  
  
  

  
    	

  
  An
appeals court ruled Monday that Passaic County Prosecutor James F.
Avigliano acted properly in 2004 when he ordered 10 police officers
suspected of using steroids to undergo drug testing.
The Appellate Division panel let stand a lower court </atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/prosecutor-can-test-cops-for-drugs.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114598029252716941</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:51:32 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T08:51:32.533-07:00</atom:updated><title>Wondering why cops get off easy on drug testing</title><atom:summary type='text'>Monday, April 17,
2006

H e's one of those ground-level guys who can interpret
street-top hieroglyphics, the spray-painted lines used to
map the underworld for construction workers. 
"Blue's water. Green's for sewer. Orange is
communication -- Qwest, cable, all that. Yellow, that's
us -- gas." 
His name is Jim Walker, but friends and co-workers at
Northwest Natural Gas know him as J.W. On this </atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/wondering-why-cops-get-off-easy-on.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114598016575658265</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:49:25 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T08:49:25.770-07:00</atom:updated><title>Mom-and-pop drug testing</title><atom:summary type='text'>By Raquel Rutledge
		Milwaukee Journal SentinelMILWAUKEE — Desperate parents dissatisfied with old-school ways of
trying to tell whether their kids are doing drugs — rifling through
their drawers, smelling their breath, searching their eyes — are now
instead demanding proof.

They're dragging their teens to drug-testing labs and buying home testing kits by the case over the Internet.

"I tell my </atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/mom-and-pop-drug-testing.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114597968720816760</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:41:27 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T08:41:27.216-07:00</atom:updated><title>Drug testing, “the New McCarthyism”</title><atom:summary type='text'>
By Ben Donovan

		

“Are you now, or have you ever been, a marijuana user?”
Sound familiar? It should; during
the 1950s, the United States lived in fear of the witch-hunt for
communists led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. Today, he is dead, communism
is no longer a terror, and the country has moved on. We’ve found a new
monster: drugs. 
As part of his 2007 budget
proposal, President Bush proposed </atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/drug-testing-new-mccarthyism.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114597702149118208</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:57:01 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T07:57:01.503-07:00</atom:updated><title>Drug use can damage the brain and lead to addiction</title><atom:summary type='text'>By Tina Hesman SaeyST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH04/01/2006



Teenagers who drink, smoke and use drugs can derail their brain development and set themselves up for lifelong addiction.

And parents who strictly monitor their teens' behavior are one of the
most influential forces preventing kids from using drugs and alcohol.

Now that might not sound like news to you.



But truth is, until recently most</atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/drug-use-can-damage-brain-and-lead-to.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114597648989979410</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:48:09 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T07:48:09.903-07:00</atom:updated><title>My Mother the Narc</title><atom:summary type='text'>Do home drug-testing kits help or hurt teens?By Sarah ChildressNewsweekApril
10, 2006 issue - It took Mike Peterson three years to find out that his
15-year-old son had a drug problem. He'd noticed that the once-charming
A and B student with a love of Superman paraphernalia had become angry
and withdrawn, and was in danger of flunking out of school. But his son
repeatedly denied using drugs. </atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/my-mother-narc.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114597630177827955</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:45:01 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-25T07:45:01.783-07:00</atom:updated><title>Drug drivers passing roadside tests</title><atom:summary type='text'>10 April 2006Almost
one third of drivers who tested positive for illegal drugs were able to
pass roadside 'sobriety' tests, new research has revealed.
Research conducted by Glasgow University found that a significant
number of drivers stopped by the police on suspicion of driving under
the influence of drink or drugs were able to successfully complete the
Field Impairment Tests, despite some </atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/drug-drivers-passing-roadside-tests.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26872051/posts/summary/114591565907277162</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2006-04-24T14:55:11.903-07:00</atom:updated><title>Drug Test Developed for Saliva, Sweat</title><atom:summary type='text'>ONESBORO, Ark. — Drug detection as easy as taking a swipe of someone's sweat could someday be in the hands of law enforcement, thanks to research conducted at the Arkansas Biosciences Institute at Arkansas State University.                              "The hardest problems in science are often solved with just one question," said Robyn Hannigan, associate professor of chemistry and physics at </atom:summary><link>http://www.detoxforless.com/drug-testing-news/2006/04/drug-test-developed-for-saliva-sweat_24.html</link><author>Detox For Less</author></item></channel></rss>