FAQ

• Q: Why use dogs?
• Q: What is Contraband?
• Q: I don't think we have a drug problem, why should I use you?
• Q: Should our Drug Policy include "Contraband" Inspections?
• Q: What will my employees think?
• Q: Do you have a license?
• Q: How do you train without using dangerous drugs?
• Q: Is it a Search...or an Inspection?
• Q: Why do I need a drug-free workplace?
  • You are required to by law.
  • You will be able to obtain better profits with Reduced waste and theft.
  • Lower production costs.
  • Decreased absenteeism.
  • Reduced Worker's Compensation claim.
  • You will help employees be safe from dangerous performance or activities of substance controlled co-workers.
  • Employees will have higher morale.

• The cost to replace an hourly drug abuser could exceed $7000.00. That mid-level manager could cost you over $10,000.00. And if you are lucky, the cost of replacing a senior executive begins at $40,000.00.
• 25% of the substance-abusing employee's wages are lost due to poor attendance, inefficiency, and an increased use of health insurance.
• 4 out of 10 industrial fatalities. 65% of violence and thefts. 50% of all employee emergency room visits are directly attributed to drug abusing employees.
• Drug abusing employees file 5 times more workers' compensation claims. 2.5 times more likely to have absences longer than 8 days. and 3.6 times more likely to be injured on the job.
• 65% of all work-related accidents are the direct result of substance abuse.
• Drug abusing employees have health care expenditures for their families that are twice that on non-abusing employees.
• 67% of people entering the workplace have used drugs, 44% have used them in the past year.
• A drug-abusing employee is more likely to be violent to himself and to others. Let alone the negative influence and pressures that the abuser will have on co-workers.
• 70% of all drug users are employed. 35% of all drug users sell drugs to co-workers to support their own drug habit.
• America is 5% of the world's population yet consumes 65% of the world's illegal drugs.
• 7.5% of full-time employees reported being heavy drinkers.
• Courts are increasingly holding employers responsible for their employee's actions involving drugs and alcohol.