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1. What Drives Workers to Keep Using Drugs...Even When it Means Loss of Livelihood
November 18, 2013
Illicit drug use is isolating, which is one reason why the Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) was formed. The peer-based organisation has a message that it does not matter what opinion people have about those who use drugs; they just need to accept the reality that a large num...
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2. Sober Drinking Knowledge Dissipates While Intoxicated
November 14, 2013
Life is full of mysteries, and one of them is particularly puzzling. Why do people continue to drink and drive when they know it can lead to serious consequences? Why do so many Australians make such a bad decision in their personal and work lives? The answer is not simple because they are motivated...
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3. Wisdom, then Knowledge
November 12, 2013
It is often argued that knowledge is much more powerful than wisdom because you cannot even begin to use wisdom unless you have some life experience, education and teaching to exercise your wisdom with. Of course, this is an impractical thought process, and here’s why:
You must first decide ...
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4. Winter Months, Sunny Hills, and Cold Depression
November 11, 2013
Workplace drug testing is for companies which wish to evaluate their employees on a more scientific level than just performance or ratings. Now, every business has a right to conduct their operations in whichever wa...
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5. When You Can't Let Go of Control
November 08, 2013
When you look into your business to see how it can be improved and how your ambition can be more fruitful, you may find workers who complain about your controlling personality. Now, having a high standard of quality is a positive attribute. Micromanaging everything that everyone else is doing is hig...
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6. Wandering Alone in the Dark
November 08, 2013
Occasionally, you will have an employee who is so withdrawn into themselves that you don’t think that you will ever be able to establish a close bond or connection with them. This may be due to many reasons, but their withdrawal coupled with a certain reading on a drug screening test can be cause fo...
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7. The Truth of the Matter
November 06, 2013
Truth is highly subjective. Have you noticed that? It is never that someone really won’t listen to reason or that they really don’t care about the truth. It is almost always the case that someone simply sees the world from a vastly different perspective than you do. Of course, their perspective may ...
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8. The Many Justifications of Substance Abusers
October 29, 2013
Drug and alcohol abuse simply does not make sense. It harms the body and the mind, jeopardises employment, destroys families, and harms society in numerous ways. Yet people not only continue to abuse substances, they always seem to be looking for a higher “high”. A few months ago, there was a news ...
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9. Not So Obvious Health Effects of Using Illicit Drugs
October 28, 2013
The report Drugs in Australia 2010 is the most recent, comprehensive report on Australian patterns of drug use and the terrible costs that substance abuse incurs. Substances include tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs. The numbers are staggering. Four out of five Australians over 12 years old had c...
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10. Changing Set Up To Fail Syndrome to Whole of Workplace
October 22, 2013
An employee is caught drinking alcohol in the bathroom, and this was the third offence. The supervisor fires the worker, since there are now three documented cases of drug and alcohol policy violations. The next day, the department manager requests a meeting with the supervisor. In the meeting, the ...
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