Apr 4, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
The committee comprised of federally regulated employers, labour groups, and federal officials assigned to help the federal government navigate marijuana testing regulations for Canadian workers has not been able to reach consensus, meaning that no new federal rules...
Mar 29, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Nurses, drug counsellors, paramedics and police are working together in Lethbridge to manage the current opioid crisis overtaking the city, home to 60% of southern Alberta’s fentanyl-related overdose deaths in 2017. Part of the effort includes a new safe consumption...
Mar 27, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Last Spring, the federal government announced two bills that will constitute the country’s legislation for cannabis legalization. Bill C-45 outlines the law for production, possession, safety standards, distribution, and sales, and Bill C-46, outlines impairment...
Mar 22, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
U.S. President Donald Trump presented his plan to address the opioid addiction crisis in New Hampshire, which included tightening sentencing laws for drug traffickers and pursuing the death penalty for dealers. Speaking with reporters during a meeting in the Oval...
Mar 20, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Two years after the government first announced its plans to create a national strategy to battle alcohol dependence and its related illnesses, concerns have arisen that this plan is being brushed aside in the wake of the opioid crisis and the upcoming legalization of...
Mar 15, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
A Halifax toxicology lab is under scrutiny after a recent Supreme Court decision questioned its results in a child custody case. In her ruling, Justice Theresa Forgeron ruled against the Department of Community Services’ motion to allow expert evidence from the...
