NCJ Number
166907
Date Published
1989
Length
22 pages
Annotation
This report describes the drug testing program at the Georgia Power company, discusses the studies to be conducted in the project sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to evaluate drug testing in the workplace, and presents some preliminary results from Georgia Power's data files.
Abstract
The Georgia Power program for preventing alcohol and drug use has several components, including education and communication, security activities, an employee assistance program, and an ongoing process of drug testing. The NIDA-sponsored studies will identify the workplace behaviors and measures associated with drug use, evaluate the impact of drug testing, develop estimates of drug use prevalence in the Georgia Power workforce, and study the costs and benefits of employee drug testing. Preliminary results from 1986 and 1987 reveal that 13.4 and 14.8 percent of those tested were positive for any drug. In the 2 years, 4.8 and 5.2 percent tested positive for marijuana, 2.2 and 1.6 percent tested positive for cocaine, and 6.5 and 7.9 percent tested positive for other drugs. The preliminary results suggest that the data structure is quite complex. Tables and 8 references