Significance Of West Virginia Drug Testing

By Sharron Cantu


Substance abuse is becoming a big problem in the world today. Many young people are getting into it, without knowing the long term effects of the abuse. The benefits of West Virginia drug testing are many. There has never been any negative effect of testing that is known; alternatively only positive effects are known.

A drug is a substance that people take to cure a sickness or relieve pain and is usually prescribed by a practicing doctor, but there are other types of drugs that are mostly self prescribed that are not for relieving pain but for pleasure or ecstasy and this mostly affect the nervous system. The continuous use of this kind of drugs makes one an addict of that substance.

Unlike in a state like west Virginia, where drug testing is not a requirement, some companies have a mandatory law that their employees have to be drug free before beginning to work for them and they are again tested annually or biannually to make sure they are clean. In West Virginia, the law of making the testing mandatory is yet to be passed.

People should not feel like their rights are being infringed on when the individuals are asked to take the test. It is like helping them take good care of their health and also helping them stay healthy. They become better employees with much better results in the company as they are always sober and able to work together and have a good relationship with their bosses. Having an addict as an employee can even be dangerous to the other workers as they are hard to work with.

Some companies feel that it is a waste of time and money as they will have to pay for the testing. But they do not realize that it is cheaper to pay for that than to deal with the addicts who are not only hard to deal with but the time they waste being in and out of hospitals for the many different ailment they usually have or going through hiring each and every other time they have to go for rehab.

Programs to educate and enlighten people in their workplaces are sometimes put in place by some caring employers. The individuals are made to understand the dangers of abusing drugs, the side effects not only on them but on their loved ones too.

Generally, testing for drugs is a good thing because, it even saves on the medical for most people because addicts sometimes have many problems like not eating well and this brings with It some sicknesses that are associated with malnutrition making them go to hospital and the treatments they are given are expensive as they sometimes have to be checked into a rehab to stop the addiction first because treatment without rehab is the same as no treatment at all.

So it should be made signed into law making mandatory for all people to be tested to improve the productivity of not only workplaces but the state in general because abusing drugs will reduce as no one who is an addict will be employed or allowed into any job opportunity by the government.




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