11/20/2008
AFL warns Cuz after close shave foils drug test

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The AFL flexed its muscle yesterday by insisting former West Coast captain Ben Cousins comply with future hair follicle drug tests or incur a penalty that would almost certainly end his football career. Cousins angered key league officials and commissioners two weeks ago when he turned up for a urine and hair test sporting a close-cropped [...]

11/20/2008
Man who refused drug test loses appeal over sacking

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A worker who refused a drug test and was fired from a meat processing plant has lost a claim for unjustified dismissal. Jonathon Parker took his employer, Silver Fern Farms, owner of the Oringi plant near Dannevirke, to the Employment Relations Authority. Mr Parker worked at the plant from February 2002 until his dismissal on December 7, [...]

11/15/2008
Courts work to stop drivers from driving drunk

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Eyewitness News 4 profiled a drunk driver who racked up 24 DWI arrests in the ’80s and ’90s. A lot has changed since then. Courts are now working harder than ever to keep drunks off the road. Bernalillo County Metro Court now has a program called the DWI First Offender Program. Anyone who is convicted of DWI in [...]

11/15/2008
Drug-taking teens could face forced border tests

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Teenagers suspected of taking drugs across the border may be subject to compulsory drug testing when they arrive at the Hong Kong checkpoint.The move was among the recommendations announced yesterday by the Task Force on Youth Drug Abuse headed by Secretary for Justice Wong Yan-lung to curb drug abuse. Wong said the number of young people [...]

11/10/2008
Worker at drug testing center took suspects? bribes

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A worker at a Lansing drug testing center has admitted to taking bribes of marijuana and money from convicts and federal defendants to conceal their suspected drug use. Amanda Winter of Lansing pleaded guilty Wednesday in Grand Rapids federal court to public corruption. Winter worked at Insight Recovery Center, a federal contractor. She admitted to taking payments [...]

10/31/2008
Drug tests to begin for Youngstown cops, officials

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YOUNGSTOWN ? The mayor, law and finance directors are subject to the random drug and alcohol testing that will begin this quarter for police. Capt. Kenneth Centorame, Youngstown Police Ranking Officers president, said the provision for random testing has been in union contracts for about 20 years, established when Patrick J. Ungaro was mayor, but hasn?t [...]

10/31/2008
15 UNT athletes fail drug test

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Fifteen players on the active roster of the NT football team - 17 % - tested positive for drug use in a random screening given by the university from September 24 to October 15. According to a news release, tests were administered at the request of football head coach Todd Dodge. In a press conference, Dodge [...]

10/26/2008
Austrian athlete Huetthaler is banned for two years for doping

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Austrian triathlete Lisa Huetthaler has been banned for two years by the Law Commission of Austrian National Anti-Doping Agency for failing doping tests, her lawyer Christian Flick confirmed on Thursday. According to media such as Austrian Television, this ban will be retroactive to Mar. 22 this year, the date of her first failed doping test. The [...]

10/26/2008
Screening teachers for drugs

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New London (WTNH) — The arrest of a New London teacher on drug charges has parents demanding stricter hiring policies including drug testing. New London is currently in line with pretty much every other public school system in the state. It doesn’t do random drug testing, but it is considering pre-employment testing, and that’s something parents would [...]

10/24/2008
School warned about East Tenn. driver before her DUI arrest

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A police officer says he alerted school officials to his concerns about an East Tennessee school bus driver who was later arrested for driving under the influence with a bus full of children. OAS_AD('ArticleFlex_1'); How to Destroy Acne Without Destroying Your Skin Get Debt Out of Your Life Computer Slowing Down? What to Do About It #ARALifeCategoryTable_300×250WhiteStd [...]

10/24/2008
Monongahela secures help of drug task force

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Bob Kepics had been in office for only a month as mayor of Monongahela when he called a meeting of Mon Valley mayors and police chiefs to talk about the region’s drug problem. A few weeks later, in February, he called another meeting. Just like before, no one from the larger municipalities showed up, not even [...]

10/18/2008
Contador says anti-doping fight works

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MADRID, Spain  The latest positive doping test from the Tour de France shows that efforts to rid the sport of drug cheats are working, former Tour champion Alberto Contador said Thursday.Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, the Spaniard said he was surprised to hear that German cyclist Bernhard Kohl had tested positive for [...]

10/18/2008
Whitefish 3rd grader disciplined under drug policy

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KALISPELL - A third-grader who admitted smoking marijuana in the boy’s restroom at school is one of the first students to have been disciplined under the Whitefish School District’s new suspicion-based drug testing policy. Superintendent Jerry House says no one saw the boy smoking pot, but teachers could smell the smoke. Because teachers keep track of [...]

10/9/2008
Pro: Drug tests help deter students from using

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At some point in life people are exposed to drugs, marijuana, alcohol and cocaine. Administrators in the Victoria school district are attempting to put a stop to drug use by testing students. Students involved in extra-curricular activities and those with parking privileges can be tested, Robert Gonzalez, drug coordinator for the district, said. ?Random drug testing gives [...]

10/9/2008
Drug-test policy for probationers gets federal OK

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After reluctantly changing its policies, Arkansas has been given approval to continue testing its probationers and parolees for drug use. Employees with the Department of Community Correction regularly test the urine samples of the state?s 51, 000 probationers and parolees using machines or disposable kits. In July, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ordered the [...]