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Running Head: MANDATORY DRUG TESTING 1

Mandatory Drug Testing

Shaketa Robinson

Ashford University

GEN 103 Information Literacy

Pamela Wren

May 11, 2020

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Research topic

Mandatory drug testing for employees

The problem of alcohol and drug abuse is common among laborers in the United States.

Employees abuse drugs before or during their shifts and put their colleagues at risk, such as

injuries or death. Drug abuse impairs the judgment of people; hence people under the influence

could not effectively. There is a need to create mandatory drug testing in work environments to

help to identify employees with substance-abuse issues and come up with strategies that

employers can employ to reduce those issues to increase the productivity of those associated with

drug abuse. Mandatory drug testing will help to create a free drug abuse work environment and

ensure the safety of workers. Organizations will increase productivity as employers will be able

to identify the employees who take drugs and proper measures taken for them (Schilbach, 2019).

Research Question:

1. What can be done to organizations to adopt mandatory drug testing of employees to deal

with substance and drug abuse among American employees?

In the contemporary work environment, mandatory drug testing is a method that is most effective

in eliminating substance and drug abuse among employees of the United States as employees

will be tested before and during shifts to check issues of drug abuse in the work environments.

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Mandatory drug testing for employees will improve the safety of employees and increase their

productivity in the organizations.

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References

Schilbach, F. (2019). Alcohol and self-control: A field experiment in India. American economic

review, 109(4), 1290-1322.