Worker Drug Use and Workplace Policies and Programs:
Results from the 1994 and 1997 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
6.5
Workplace Information, Policies, and Drug Testing Related to Heavy Alcohol
Use
Table 6.4 presents the relative risks of heavy
drinking by self-reported status of workplace drug use information, policy,
and drug testing programs. Although none of the results achieved statistical
significance, there are some results worth noting. After controlling statistically
for the effect of workers=
age, gender, race and ethnicity, education, income, workplace establishment
size, and region of workplace:
In 1997, workers who said that their workplace
did not have a written policy about alcohol or drug use were more
than twice as likely (p<.05) to report heavy alcohol use as workers
who said that their workplace had a written policy.
In 1997, as in 1994, the multivariate analysis
showed no statistically significant relationship between workers saying
their workplace conducted drug testing at hiring, on a random basis, upon
suspicion, or after a work-related accident and worker reports of heavy
alcohol use.
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