Forming Drug Test Policies Through A Haze Of Marijuana Laws

Law360, New York (June 29, 2016, 11:18 AM EDT) -- Although most people believe that the concept of employer drug testing began with the advent of the Drug Free Workplace Act of 1986, the roots of drug testing and employers' concerns with drug abuse actually date back to the Civil War. Early reports of drug abuse began with the first major use of morphine as a pain killer on the battlefield, and the Union Army issued 10 million opium pills to its wounded soldiers, which lead to widespread abuse among army veterans, in what was known as "the army disease."...

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