This document discusses the negative impacts of drug use in the workplace. It notes that drug using employees are more likely to be involved in accidents, file workers' compensation claims, request time off, and be late for work. Additionally, the document states that drug testing is important because government assistance programs are intended to help those in need, not fund drug use.

1. This is your brain

2. This is drugs

3. This is your brain on drugs

4. What’s ahead:
• Drug use can lead to preventable accidents in
the workplace.
• Drugs can cause employees to be less
productive at work.
• Government assistance will be taken away
from those that test positive for drugs as it is
designed to help those in need.

6. Drug using employees are…
• 4 times more likely to be involved in a
workplace accident.
• 5 times more likely to file a workers’
compensation claim
"Facts and Statistics Don't Lie." Employment Background Investigations. Employment Background
Investigations, 2010. Web. 13 June 2013.

7. Drug using employees are…
• 2 times more likely to request early dismissal
or time off from work.
• 3 times more likely to be late for work.
"Facts and Statistics Don't Lie." Employment Background Investigations. Employment Background
Investigations, 2010. Web. 13 June 2013.

8. Startling Statistics
• 49% of Americans received at least one direct
benefit from the federal government.
• 96% of Americans have relied on the federal
government to assist them.
Plumer, Brad. "Survey: 96 Percent of Americans Have Received Government Benefits."
TheWashingtonPost.com. Washington Post, 26 Sept. 2012. Web. 14 June 2013.