Jul 31, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
In an effort to determine whether employees are fit to perform in specific safety sensitive positions, some workplaces are now asking employers to play video games before starting work. A short test, the “video game” tests the player’s ability to classify shapes...
Jul 26, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Testing and research laboratories across Canada are preparing for the October 17th legalization of cannabis, expecting a boom in business once recreational cannabis is finally made legal. Canada has forty two laboratories that are authorized to test and research...
Jul 24, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
In response to a call to action from Canadian Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, wherein she asked pharmaceutical companies to restrict their marketing of dangerous opioids in light of the climbing death toll from opioid abuse across the country, Oxycontin’s...
Jul 19, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Canadian medical professionals are trying to substitute alternative drugs for back pain in an effort to stem the opioid addiction crisis sweeping across North America; unfortunately, many of these alternative prescriptions, according to a study by the Canadian Medical...
Jul 17, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Small-scale cannabis producers in British Columbia could be denied access to the impending legal market if the federal and provincial governments don’t make essential changes to the legalization policy. In an open letter to federal justice minister Jody...
Jul 10, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
The human brain is naturally wired to reward itself with the “feel-good” neurotransmitter dopamine when its basic needs of food, water, and sex are met. Addiction taps into this reward system to “trick” the brain into wanting more. This is why...
