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IndustryWeek
February 17, 2010
Jonathan Katz |
Rethinking Drug Testing For years it's been a no-brainer on the plant floor, but what do drug screens really tell us?   |
Fast Company
Lydia Dishman |
Yes, You Can Get Fired For Doing Legal Drugs In the department of counter intuitive court rulings, Colorado's Supreme Court ruled in favor of Dish Network, when the company fired an employee for smoking marijuana. |
Reason
April 2008
Jacob Sullum |
No Bad Drugs Two books on drug use in America offer conflicting opinions and further emphasize the arbitrary distinctions at the root of drug prohibition. |
IndustryWeek
February 17, 2010
Jonathan Katz |
Impairment Tests as a Drug-Screen Alternative Impairment testing shows promise as a more effective measure to determine on-the-job alertness. |
AskMen.com
July 2, 2001
Ash Karbasfrooshan |
Addiction In The Workplace According to Timothy Dimoff, a former narcotics detective, 5 to 17% of American workers arrive at their jobs under the influence of drugs or alcohol. And based on what the experts have to say, the remaining 83 to 95% could be itching to get home to get plastered... |
AskMen.com
Jasper Anson |
Illegal Interview Questions Job interviews are stressful enough, but illegal interview questions make things worse. What should you do if you are asked these questions that shouldn't be asked? |
American Journal of Nursing
November 2008
Madeline A. Naegle |
Screening for Alcohol Use and Misuse in Older Adults: Using the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test--Geriatric Version The availability of accurate, easy-to-use screening tools to detect people in need of counseling can increase the number of older adults whose lives can be improved and even lengthened. |
Reason
January 2004
Renee Moilanen |
Just Say No Again The old failures of new and improved anti-drug education |
Inc.
November 2004
Norm Brodsky |
Street Smarts: Just Say Yes How a drug-testing policy that sounds tough can turn into a lifeline for some. |
American Family Physician
April 1, 2003
David J. Mersy |
Recognition of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Ten percent of the population abuses drugs or alcohol, and 20 percent of patients seen by family physicians have substance-abuse problems, excluding tobacco use. These patients can be identified by relying on regular screening or a high index of suspicion based on "red flags." |
Reason
May 2004
Jacob Sullum |
Let the Love Flow Student drug testing, which the President wants to encourage with new federal funding. |
Managed Care
April 2005
Martin Sipkoff |
Insurers Give Substance Abuse New Identity: It's a Disease After years of short shrift from payers and insurers, substance abuse services get renewed interest. Health Plans in particular are re-evaluating their approach. |
American Family Physician
February 1, 2002
Mary-Anne Enoch & David Goldman |
Problem Drinking and Alcoholism: Diagnosis and Treatment Although associated with considerable morbidity and mortality, alcoholism often goes unrecognized in a clinical or primary health care setting. Several brief screening instruments are available to quickly identify problem drinking, often a pre-alcoholism condition... |
Reason
May 2002
Stanton Peele |
Hungry for the Next Fix Behind the relentless, misguided search for a medical cure for addiction... |
Salon.com
April 22, 2002
Janelle Brown |
Why drug tests flunk If the Supreme Court rules in favor of drug testing in public schools, will students come clean? Kids at schools in Indiana, where drug tests rule, say no way... |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2000
Ted D. Epperly |
Health Issues in Men: Part II. Common Psychosocial Disorders During screening examinations and, when appropriate, other health-related visits, family physicians should be alert for signs and symptoms of common psychosocial disorders in men. Health issues of concern include alcohol and substance abuse, domestic violence, midlife crisis and depression. |
Managed Care
June 2007
Lisa A. Higgins |
Sobering Stats Invite Insurers To Fight Alcoholism Effectively Health plans may not be able to control problem drinking by their members. They can, however, affect the way their contracted providers approach the problem. And that may be what makes the difference. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
James V. DeLong |
Old law vs. the new economy How New Deal-era regulations stifle flexible work arrangements... |
Chemistry World
January 11, 2012
Hayley Birch |
Drive towards detecting drugs at the roadside The UK government is setting up an advisory panel that will assess the feasibility of roadside testing for drug driving, similar to testing for drunk driving. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Jordan DiPietro |
3 Biotechs on Your Radar Screen It's not easy keeping track of all the drugs coming in and out of the development pipeline, but if you can stay up to date, you often have an advantage |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2010
Brian Orelli |
A Painless Drug Deal Bristol-Myers licenses pain drug from Allergan. |
Reason
March 2008
Greg Beato |
The Golden Age How Americans learned to stop worrying and love workplace drug testing. |
American Family Physician
April 1, 2003 |
Substance Abuse--How To Recognize It Am I drinking too much?... Am I taking risks with alcohol or other mood-altering substances?... Has my drinking or drug use become a habit?... Is alcohol or drug use taking over my life?... Has drinking alcohol or using drugs become a problem for me?... etc. |
Reason
March 2003
Jacob Sullum |
Safety Hook The politics of "drugged driving" |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Mark Your Calendar, Drug Investors Vertex announces that the Food and Drug Administration has accepted its New Drug Application to market telaprevir. |
BusinessWeek
January 21, 2010
John Carey |
Making Personalized Medicine Pay Medco and other pharmacy benefit managers say future profits depend on matching drugs to patients based on their genes. |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2004 |
Substance Abuse Questions and answers on substance abuse. |
The Motley Fool
January 29, 2010
Brian Orelli |
How to Make Billions of Dollars Without Really Trying Lackluster Alzheimer's drugs have been doing it for years. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2010
Brian Orelli |
Drugmakers May Lose a Back Door for Drug Approval Non-inferiority trials may be inferior. |
Reason
December 2007
Jacob Sullum |
Pill Palaces? A recent report announced that 80% of America's high school students attend drug-infested schools. Given how broad the definition was, it's surprising only 80% of high schools qualified. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2010
Brian Orelli |
A Faster Pathway to Drug Approvals A thinktank called the Pacific Research Institute has proposed letting drugs approved by the European Medicines Authority onto the market in the U.S. before the Food and Drug Administration has approved the drugs. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Drug Warning Labels: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Once a drug is approved, investors can't fall asleep and ignore FDA announcements about drugs. They come in different varieties, but warnings tend to be of the bad and ugly variety more often than the good. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2006 |
Sales and Marketing: Where the Buck Stops Pharma's ultimate customer is the employer - the guy who pays the health plan's bill. Here's what he wants to know about drugs. |
Job Journal
April 29, 2007 |
Jobwire The Price of Obesity... Personal Tasks Hurt Productivity... Female CEOs on the Rise... On the Job Front... Hirings & Firings... |
Search Engine Watch
May 18, 2010
Matthew Ncube |
Tracking Search Habits: The Mephedrone Ban Are Brits kicking the habit, or on the verge of getting hooked? Drilling down to see what the search data tells us. |
The Motley Fool
March 28, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Investors Jump for Yervoy! The Food and Drug Administration approval of Bristol-Myers Squibb's Yervoy came with some surprising labeling news. |
Managed Care
December 2005
Lola Butcher |
Kansas City Focuses on Depression Health plans, researchers, employers, and workers make common cause to identify and treat depression. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2011
Brian Orelli |
We Hate Your Drug. And That's a Good Thing. This one's a pain for the clinical trial participants. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
April 1, 2011 |
Off-Label But On Point? Use of off-label drugs is a balancing act for physicians, and poses even more problems for pharma. The FDA is moving slowly to help. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Congress Sets Bad Precedent With AVANIR What happened to free markets? |
Reason
March 2001
Nick Gillespie |
The 13th Step Even some drug war opponents buy into its lies... |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2010
Brian Orelli |
3 Development-Stage Drugmakers Worth Watching A basket of potential drugs in just one company. |
Managed Care
August 2006
Cross & Sipkoff |
Although Employers Need Depression Programs, They May Not Know It Yet Research says the hidden cost of untreated depression far outweighs the cost of treatment. Plans need to get this information to purchasers. |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Alexza Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Alexza Pharmaceuticals shares fell 52% today after the Food and Drug Administration did not clear the company's new drug, AZ-004. |
Salon.com
November 1, 2000
Cynthia Kuhn & Wilkie Wilson |
Daily dose I drink, smoke dope, pop Vicodin and take Prozac. Why hasn't my body given out yet? |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Want to Study Accounting or Medieval History? Chances Are, Your Employer Will Foot the Bill Virtually all employers offer this benefit, to some degree. Employees do not pay for this benefit in the form of lower wages. In fact, employers actually pay higher wages when they also have this benefit, suggesting that the workers must be more productive to compensate for the higher salaries. |
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Rare Diseases, Big Opportunity "Orphan" drugs to keep your eye on. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2010
Brian Orelli |
A Witty Response to Pharma's R&D Dilemma According to GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty, the pharmaceutical industry is a mess. That's the basic gist of his opinion piece in The Economist. |
AskMen.com
Jose Espinoza |
Only Drug Testing Can Save Boxing The sport needs a drug-testing regimen to save itself financially. "...the fight that was "supposed to save boxing" was canceled because both sides couldn't agree on a fair drug-testing schedule." |
Job Journal
January 20, 2008
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Keeping Out the Quitters Employers increase efforts to weed out `quitter' job applicants. |
