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International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) is a global event held on August 31st each year and aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the ...

Drug testing programs aim to prevent the hiring of drug-using applicants while deterring drug use among current employees. According to the Substan...

Employers report they are having difficulty finding workers who can pass a pre-employment drug test, The New York Times reports. Drug testing is be...

As of May 2016, 25 states plus the District of Columbia allow the medicinal use of marijuana by patients suffering from certain debilitating medica...

Opioid abuse could be costing U.S. employers up to $8 billion annually, according to a report by the benefits firm Castlight Health. Employees who ...

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in Houston are seeing an increasing amount of a type of high-potency marijuana known as "shatter." Som...

Fatal overdoses from benzodiazepines—sedatives sold under brand names such as Xanax, Valium, and Ativan—are on the rise, a new study finds. Ov...

President Obama is asking for more than $1 billion in new funding to address the opioid epidemic, USA Today reports. The funding would expand acces...

Workers in states that have legalized marijuana should think twice before smoking the drug. A new survey from the Society for Human Resource Manage...

The prevalence of employed adults with high levels of lead in their blood has fallen since the mid-1990s, according to a new NIOSH report. NIOSH an...