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    Companies need workers — but people keep getting high

    Companies need workers — but people keep getting high

    By Danielle Paquette
    May 17 at 1:50 PM


    Legal marijuana is spreading across the country — but employers aren't changing their ways. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press via Associated Press)


    Workers at McLane drive forklifts and load hefty boxes into trucks. The grocery supplier, which runs a warehouse in Colorado, needs people who will stay alert — but prospective hires keep failing drug screens.


    “Some weeks this year, 90 percent of applicants would test positive for something,” ruling them out for the job, said Laura Stephens, a human resources manager for the company in Denver.


    The state’s unemployment rate is already low — 3 percent, compared to 4.7 percent for the entire nation. Failed drug tests, which are rising locally and nationally,further drain the pool of eligible job candidates.


    “Finding people to fill jobs,” Stephens said, “is really challenging.”


    Job applicants are testing positive for marijuana, cocaine, amphetamine and heroin at the highest rate in 12 years, according to a new report from Quest Diagnostics, a clinical lab that follows national employment trends.

    An analysis of about 10 million workplace drug screens from across the country in 2016 found positive results from urine samples increased from 4 percent in 2015 to 4.2 percent in 2016.


    The most significant increase was in positive tests for marijuana, said Barry Sample,the scientist who wrote the report. Positive tests for the drug reached 2 percent last year, compared with 1.6 percent in 2012.


    Although state laws have relaxed over the past four years, employers haven’t eased up on testing for pot, even where it’s legal.


    California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada moved last year to legalize recreational marijuana, joining Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washingtona. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia, meanwhile, permit medical marijuana.

    Under federal law, however, weed remains illegal — and employers in the United States can refuse to hire anyone who uses it, even if they have a prescription, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.

    In the oral fluid testing category, which picks up on recent drug use, and is typically used to test workers on the job, positive drug tests for marijuana surged about 75 percent in the United States over the past four years — from 5.1 percent in 2013 to 8.9 percent in 2016, according to Quest. The data show smaller increases in urine and hair testing (a 4.2 percent increase over the past year).


    Colorado and Washington, which became the first two states to legalize weed in 2012, showed the largest growth in positive tests. Urine screens that detected pot rose 11 percent in Colorado and 9 percent in Washington, the first time either state outpaced the national average since residents could lawfully light up a joint.


    Quest noted that employers are also increasingly encountering job applicants who take other illicit substances. Tests that turned up cocaine increased 12 percent in 2016, hitting a seven-year high of 0.28 percent, up from 0.25 percent in 2015.

    Positive test results for amphetamine jumped 8 percent.


    The culture change in pro-marijuana states hasn’t broadly altered the way employers screen applicants, said Sample, the scientist. “Ninety-nine percent of drug panels we perform in Colorado and Washington,” he said, “still test for marijuana.”


    Companies such as McLane, where employees operate heavy machinery, keep testing for marijuana out of concern for everyone’s safety, said Stephens, the human resources manager. The firm conducts follicle tests, which can catch traces of weed for up to three months after someone smokes.


    She said the company saw “a big spike” is failed tests after pot became legal.

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    This teacher is the poster child for saying no to drugs

    By Joshua Rhett Miller

    May 17, 2017 | 12:36pm | Updated

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    Megan Sloan before and after her experience with heroin and meth.Facebook; Cook County Jail

    A teacher in Oklahoma already accused of bringing heroin and dozens of needles into her second-grade classroom is now facing additional charges in connection with the young students in her care.
    Megan Sloan, 27, was arrested May 1 after another teacher at Holmes Park Elementary in Sapulpa reported finding Sloan discussing heroin and pawning school property on her Facebook account, which she left open on a computer, the Tulsa World reports.

    Police later went to the school and found a plethora of drugs and drug paraphernalia in Sloan’s purse inside the classroom, including black tar heroin, methamphetamine, prescription drugs, syringes with exposed needles and burned metal spoons. An officer said he saw Sloan tell school administrators that she also took money slated for a field trip and used it to buy gas and drugs.


    Sloan — who had been held on charges of possession of or purchasing a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, embezzlement and possession of drug paraphernalia — saw her two felony drug counts combined into one felony count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance in the presence of a minor and had an additional felony count of child neglect added during her arraignment Tuesday.


    Sloan handed in her resignation on April 28, just days before her arrest earlier this month, according to public records obtained by the newspaper. Her resignation was to take effect on May 16, one day after the school’s final day of classes.


    Superintendent Rob Armstrong notified Sloan on May 2 that she was being suspended from her job with full pay and benefits. The school board voted to accept her resignation during a meeting the following week, the paper reported.


    Police have said Sloan admitted using drugs even before investigators searched her purse and found a collection of drugs and drug paraphernalia.


    “She says her kids have never had access to her purse,” Sapulpa police Lt. Philip Diehl told News 9 after Sloan’s arrest. “This particular morning the purse was left in the classroom, because as soon as she arrived at work, she was called down to the office, and so she set her purse down and left.”


    Diehl estimated that up to 40 syringes were found in Sloan’s bag, some of which still had liquid in them. The purse also contained empty plastic baggies, empty balloons and two bent metal spoons with burn marks on them, according to court records.


    Diehl said Sloan also admitted stealing two iPads from the school and taking field trip money to buy drugs.


    Sloan’s appearance in her mugshot following her arrest shows a starkly different image than earlier photos posted on her Facebook page. The pretty blonde is seen in several photos with young children, some posted as recently as last month. Sloan started working at Sapulpa Public Schools in July 2014, according to her profile.

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