DRUGS IN THE WORKPLACE

"Workplace alcohol, tobacco and other drug-related problems cost U.S. companies more than $102 billion each year in lost productivity, accidents, employee turnover, increased health care costs, absenteeism and workers’ compensation claims." (Alcohol and substance abuse in the workplace, New York State Office of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Services)

"Nho Van Vo, co-owner of the fashionable Club NV, a hip-hop nightclub opened late last year, and president of an automotive repair business called Ultraspeed, is alleged to have been the key player in a ring of at least 30 people recently indicted on charges of selling several illegal drugs in dance clubs around the city." (Club owner alleged as drug lord, Seattle Post Intelligencer, January 29, 2002)

"'You goy guys out there playing high every night' Oakley told the post, (Charles Oakley NBA player for the Toronto Raptors) he insisted last night at the Meadowlands, was in the way drugs, specifically, marijuana use, has exploded." (Reefer Madness, NYPOST.COM, February 22, 2001)

"General Motors calculates that its employee drug-treatment program saves $37 million a year in lost productivity. IBM estimates that it costs $50,000 to terminate an employee because of drug use." (Drug Use in the Workplace Plummets, APB News.com, July 18, 2000)