This coming January will mark the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration’s Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse's third anniversary and the date that the U.S. Department of Transportation deems the database to be fully implemented. What does this mean for motor...
By Bill Current, President and Founder, Current Consulting Group, LLC, home of Current Compliance, the industry’s only comprehensive on-line source for all state laws that affect drug testing. This is an exciting time to be either a provider or user of drug testing....
By Bill Current, president and founder of the Current Consulting Group and publisher of Current Compliance* Drug abuse is up. Positive drug test results are up. The number of companies testing for marijuana is down. We know this from three major...
In its role as the voice for the drug and alcohol testing industry, one of the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association’s priorities is to provide input representing members’ interests concerning drug and alcohol testing regulations. On June 1, NDASA submitted...
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”- Nelson Mandela Our industry lost a great mentor, leader, friend, and colleague this past...
By Michael Watson, Chief Revenue Officer, EVP, SOBRsafe COVID caused the world to coin a relatively new phrase seldom used before – “new normal.” And it quickly became applicable to the drug and alcohol testing industry as countless numbers of employers scrambled to...
New York State’s Department of Labor this month released FAQ guidance pertaining to the state's legal use of cannabis by adults 21 or older. According to the guidance, employers are prohibited from discriminating against an employee for using "cannabis...
By Jan Kornmann, CEO/Owner of KorManagement Services Can you believe it? Drug testing is 30 years old! Well, it’s really older than that, but it was 30 years ago when the Omnibus Transportation Act of 1991, the U.S. federal regulation that requires drug and alcohol...
At the end of 2020, the National Drug & Alcohol Screening Association introduced the NDASA Accreditation program for Collection Sites, Consortiums and Third-Party Administrators, Designated Employer Representatives and (coming soon) Substance Abuse Professionals....
For years, employers have been struggling with changing local and state marijuana laws and the impact on workplace drug screening programs. At least 33 states now allow medical use of marijuana and 11, plus Washington, D.C., also permit recreational use. Recently, we...