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Clarifies that drivers are prohibited from using drugs on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)’s Schedule I list under any circumstances. Schedule 1 drugs are those that the DEA says have a high potential for abuse and have no currently accepted medical use. Examples include marijuana, heroin, LSD, peyote, methamphetamines, and ecstasy. For other drugs and…

Most employers know that the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects recovered drug addicts, but not current illegal drug users. But what if an employee has only just finished drug rehab and has been “clean” for 30 days? Is the employee a recovered drug addict when they have used illegal drugs that recently? That’s…

He sued, saying the policy discriminated against him under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) because of his past drug addiction, and that it had a disparate impact on all recovered drug addicts. The court disagreed, because the policy affected both casual users and addicts, and because the applicant didn’t produce statistical evidence showing that…

75 Fed Reg 49850, Aug 16, 2010). Most importantly for employers, the new rules: Add a new substance, Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy), to the panel of drugs for which the laboratory must test; Lower the cutoff levels for cocaine (to 150 ng/mL for initial tests and 100 ng/mL for confirmation tests); Lower the…