Question by : Why is it so common for folks to want to talk about illegal drug use at workplaces?
A lot of people want to discuss how they don’t partake, or how some horrible family member who is an embarrassment to them is so “addicted” and to strangers at that. Do people not realize A. Not appropriate for the workplace B. Nobody cares C. Nobody cares. Just curious if anyone else has experienced the workplace acting and comedy routines that are common in the Midwest.

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Answer by coolette22
To make them feel better about their own alcoholism.

Answer by button up
The government passed legislation requiring employers to drug test employees about twenty years ago. Employers were required to assume the responsibility of rehabilitation or termination. Discussions about drugs at the work place became much more common.

Drug use in the US is a serious problem.

People talking among themselves must have a common interest. Those most uncomfortable with the conversations are probably users of drugs or sympathetic with legalization of drugs in the US. They should find other employees to converse with.

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Question by : Why is it so common for folks to want to talk about illegal drug use at workplaces?
A lot of people want to discuss how they don’t partake, or how some horrible family member who is an embarrassment to them is so “addicted” and to strangers at that. Do people not realize A. Not appropriate for the workplace B. Nobody cares C. Nobody cares. Just curious if anyone else has experienced the workplace acting and comedy routines that are common in the Midwest.

Best answer:

Answer by coolette22
To make them feel better about their own alcoholism.

Answer by button up
The government passed legislation requiring employers to drug test employees about twenty years ago. Employers were required to assume the responsibility of rehabilitation or termination. Discussions about drugs at the work place became much more common.

Drug use in the US is a serious problem.

People talking among themselves must have a common interest. Those most uncomfortable with the conversations are probably users of drugs or sympathetic with legalization of drugs in the US. They should find other employees to converse with.

Narcotics agency pledges to improve rehabilitation efforts
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Drug addicts demand 'more dignified life'
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Question by John D: Are there any congressmen (house or senate) who favor changing the “war on drugs” to something more rational?
Many people believe the “prohibition” approach to marijuana and other “illegal drugs” is not working and will never work. They think it should be replaced with a “regulation” model similar to what is used with alcohol. Evidence: it’s well known that teenagers can obtain “illegal drugs” easier than alcohol or tobacco! That’s how well the current “war on drugs” is working.

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Answer by thebigshowernie
Barney Frank is for Decriminalization of Marijuana.

Answer by iamct01
Most people do not know that the majority of the funding comes from the Partnership for a Drug Free America which is funded mainly by the alcohol industry.

Woodside: Drug rehab facility seeks home on Skyline
A proposal now under consideration by the San Mateo County Planning Commission would authorize a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center to replace the Stillheart Institute, a meditation center, at 16350 Skyline Blvd. in unincorporated Woodside.
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Chris Brown Sentenced To 90 Days Rehab & Drug Testing
Chris Brown has been sentenced to 90 days in a rehab facility and periodic drug testing. Chris Brown appeared in court in Los Angeles on Wednesday (20th November) and was ordered to a 90 day residential stint in rehab and periodic drug testing.
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Question by :): What percentage of the United States are drug addicts?
I dont want a number, i want a percentage and according to who is that percentage obtained? I need this for an essay and i have looked it up on google but they keep giving me number not a percentage. Thanks

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Answer by Spykerz
What percentage voted for Obama?

Answer by Koen
If you have a number you can calculate the percentage.

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Question by satankitty: How much can drugs harm a baby during the first month of pregnancy?
I found out I was pregnant 2 days ago. In the past few weeks I have taken 1 (possibly 2) ecxtasy pills, drank beer, smoked ciggarettes on a daily basis, and smoked one joint of marijuana. I’m thinking of keeping the baby, so I’m not going to do those things anymore. I’m just wondering if anyone can tell me the chances of the baby comming out deformed or retarted? Thank you.

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Answer by Miss Morgan
Think about it this way, That first month is when the blue prints for your baby are being drawn up in a way. Everything that your baby will be is already mapped out in the first month or so. Good Luck.

Answer by Bailey’s Mom 🙂
Just “say no to drugs” Here is why:

Fetal Abuse
A growing number of women are being criminally prosecuted or having their children taken from them for doing drugs while pregnant.

The trend is deeply alarming to women’s rights advocates and health-care workers, who warn that such a heavy-handed approach will only deter drug-addicted mothers-to-be from seeking out prenatal care. Moreover, many warn, such tactics may be paving the way for abortion — the ultimate violation of “fetal rights” — to legally be declared murder.

“These cases represent the intersection of the war on drugs and the war on abortion,” says Lynn Paltrow, director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, who has successfully helped argue against dozens of similar prosecutions in the last decade. “There may have been a temporary lull, but the issue has not gone away.”

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, spurred by hyperventilating news stories warning of a coming deluge of “crack babies,” prosecutors in more than 30 states sought to stem the anticipated flood by charging scores of drug-using pregnant women with everything from child abuse to manslaughter. In nearly all cases, however, judges eventually threw out those prosecutions, in part because the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision had firmly established that a fetus is not a person in the eyes of the law.

But in the last year, a fresh crop of fetal-rights cases have sprung up. In April, a 26-year-old Texas woman was indicted for child endangerment after her newborn tested positive for cocaine. The same month, a Pennsylvania judge ruled that prosecutors could charge an addicted mother with child endangerment for using heroin while pregnant — even if her baby was born healthy. This spring, the Oklahoma state legislature nearly passed a bill making it a misdemeanor for pregnant drug abusers to fail to get substance-abuse treatment. And in Georgia, 21-year-old Shannon Moss is facing murder charges for allegedly killing her fetus by taking cocaine and amphetamines while pregnant.

Moreover, in recent years at least 17 states have enacted civil laws making it possible for authorities to take away the children of pregnant women who test positive for drugs. The Ohio Supreme Court may take up the issue soon. So far, hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of children have been taken from their mothers as the result of a single positive drug test, according to the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy.

The most bitter battleground, however, is South Carolina, the only state so far to have explicitly extended criminal child-abuse laws to cover fetuses. Despite directly contrary rulings in numerous other states, South Carolina’s Supreme Court declared in 1997 that drug-using pregnant women can be prosecuted criminally — and sentenced to as much as 10 years in prison.

Dozens of women have since been charged. Just last March, one woman was sentenced to three years in prison for violating her probation by “abusing” her unborn child with cocaine, and another drew a five-year suspended sentence for smoking marijuana while pregnant.

Such prosecutions were pioneered 11 years ago with the help of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where zealous hospital officials started a program of testing pregnant women for drug use, and turning over their findings to police. The US Supreme Court will rule later this year on whether that practice violated the women’s Fourth Amendment right of protection against unreasonable searches.

Those who prosecute pregnant drug users say they have everyone’s best interests at heart. “I just want the babies to be safe,” says Tommy Pope, chief prosecutor for South Carolina’s York and Union Counties, where the two women convicted in March live. “We try to use prosecutions as a last resort. But you run into situations where a woman has had five kids, and they’ve all tested positive for crack. Where do you draw the line?”

“Unless addicts are forced to stop, they won’t,” seconds Bobby Hood, the attorney representing the city of Charleston in the Supreme Court case. The threat of prison, he maintains, “has a very good deterrent effect.”

But in fact, according to a broad range of women’s rights and major health care organizations, the threat of prison is more likely to hurt, not help, the unborn babies of drug users, by frightening drug-using mothers-to-be away from seeking prenatal care. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and many other groups formally oppose criminal prosecutions of mothers of drug-exposed babies.

Even Daniel Kennedy , an Illinois lawyer who recently founded the incipient Fetal Rights Institute, doesn’t think criminal prosecutions are the way to go. “Fetuses are definitely children,” says Kennedy. “But jailing moms for hurting their kids prenatally doesn’t help. It will only encourage women to seek abortions, or avoid treatment.”

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Tampa Treatment Center Announces New Approach Toward Drug-Induced Deaths
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Compulsory drug tests violate basic human rights, doctors' group says
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We know how to help the needy, but who's listening?
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