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Pre Employment Drug Testing: Benefits & Disadvantages

If you’re considering whether or not pre-employment drug testing is right for your business, you may wonder what the benefits of drug testing are, and if the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. The truth of the matter is that almost all of the disadvantages of drug testing that critics usually cite are factually inaccurate. Let’s break these arguments down. The most popular argument against drug testing is that it is just too expensive and too time consuming because drug testing requires that additional management training and HR policies be put into place and executed before employees are drug tested. In reality, the cost of pre-employment drug testing has become so affordable these days, it usually ends up being less than $75 per applicant for specimen collection, lab analysis and review, and the reporting of results. And the time it takes to put new policies in place and conduct extra training is a very small price to pay when you compare it to the time it takes HR to bring