The Benefits Of West Virginia Drug Testing

By Sharron Cantu


There are some states that do not see the need to stop an addiction that has become rampant among its people especially the youth. The necessity of West Virginia drug testing is not seen as mandatory. There is no law that has been put in place to make it a must for the residents.

A drug is a substance that people take to cure a sickness or relieve pain and is usually prescribed by a practicing doctor, but there are other types of drugs that are mostly self prescribed that are not for relieving pain but for pleasure or ecstasy and this mostly affect the nervous system. The continuous use of this kind of drugs makes one an addict of that substance.

In most countries or states, it is common law or necessity or even a requirement that employers carry out a drug test to their employees especially before they are hired, so as to ensure they have staff who are capable of working well. This is not a new thing in the states. The tests are again done after some time of working the company.

Taking the drug test should be done in a way that the employees do not feel that their rights are violated. There are some people who may feel that testing is punishing them but it is only to help them and to make them clean. In a company having workers who are addicts can really affect the productivity because when they are high on something, some sleep, some just gaze around while some can even be violent.

While some employers have it as mandatory, some view it as a waste of time and money, not caring whether their workers are affected or not, as long as they work and if you do not work well according to what they want you get the sack. The health of the worker is not their problem. They feel it has no effectiveness at all, to the real drug addiction problem.

In some workplaces, they even have training programs where they educate their workers on the dangers of drugs and the benefits of the tests, making them understand that it is for their own good and for the betterment of their health in general.

We can therefore see that the benefits of drug testing are immense. When a community is educated on that, we can have a drug free state. Children grow up knowing that drugs that are not given by a doctor are not good and it could make them unhealthy people in the society. It breeds a retardant society which is of no good at all, putting their heath in danger.

So it should be made signed into law making mandatory for all people to be tested to improve the productivity of not only workplaces but the state in general because abusing drugs will reduce as no one who is an addict will be employed or allowed into any job opportunity by the government.




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