Originally Posted by icenine (Post 361088)

Perhaps the lower workforce participation is causing the opioid crisis.

The real culprit may have been Big Pharma pushing Oxycontin into clinics all across America for profit reasons; there is evidence that many opioid users got hooked on Oxycontin first and then moved over to dirt cheap heroin from Mexico once the former drug became too expensive and/or unavailable.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-oxycontin-part2/

Originally Posted by barbara (Post 361101)

I've been trying to fill four positions and have had about seven or eight recruitments so far.
No one can pass the drug test.

Others in my department have the same problem.
I offer no suggestion as to why this is. I just know that is the experience I and others in my department have had.

Originally Posted by MrPots (Post 361122)

Are they failing for pot or other drugs? Lots of people use pot, like booze in social settings but would never use it during work hours.