One of the largest U.S. drug-testing laboratories has analyzed its millions of urine drug test results by industry for the first time, and found the two industries with the highest rate of positive test results for marijuana were also two that have to deal with consumers.
Some 5.3 percent of tests given to retail trade workers, and 4.7 percent of those given to health care and social assistance workers came back positive, according to an analysis by Quest Diagnostics.
The analysis, which comes from examining more than 10 million test results that are part of the lab company's Drug Testing Index, found that five of 16 industries saw double-digit increases in the rate of positive test results between 2015 and 2017.
They included not only retail but transportation and warehousing, finance and insurance and wholesale trade, showing an increase in positive test results at a time when more states are loosening restrictions on pot use and more companies are said to be loosening drug testing restrictions amid low unemployment.
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I was subject to such testing while in the US Army and Navy, but never while in state employment. Always came up clean.
Drugs are everywhere. You might even say we have a legal and illegal drug-based culture. What does that say about us? I'm not certain, but it definitely implies many of us are scofflaws.
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