OH factory owner has jobs available but too few sober applicants

seems to me that corporate capitalism is to blame. letting the big pharm markets be "free", and liberally throwing painkillers at patients causing the opioid epidemic.

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I dont understand drug tests, employers expect workers to come in not drunk, why can't they smoke a joint statement home? Alcohol is a much worse drug

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because you cant test to see if someone is currently high and therefor cant prove if theyre smoking on their break.

Immigrant workers are doing well for Russia because they are sober. And they work really cheap under harsh conditions.

This is a really interesting article from the NYT.

LINK

nanograms brah, nanograms.

Also add... that poppy production is at an all time high in Afghanistan.

Does anyone think those 19 dams built in Afghanistan by the US Army Corps of Engineers was based on and funded for thirsty people? Wake up.

Well, according to the majority of the bunch here, it's the fault of everyone else ('big pharma,' doctors who simply force those opioids on the patients, the government, the military, employers offering 'low' wages, etc) except those poor applicants who can't go through life without being high on something. That kind of regressive logic is what's wrong to begin with!

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employers offering 'low' wages

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There's no airquotes to this. Supply and demand works both ways.

If that's a logic puzzle, I don't get it.

What does volunteering and patriotism have to do with the inability of employers to hire sober applicants? Or with blaming everyone and everything for the problem except those who choose to live high, drunk, whatever.

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“The difficult part about marijuana is, we don’t have an affordable test that tells me if they smoked it over the weekend or smoked it in the morning before they came to work. And I just can’t take the chance of having an impaired worker running a crane carrying a 300,000-pound steel encasement,” she said.

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It seems testing is the problem, not the use.

And I'd much prefer a small factory owner in Ohio having trouble hiring a few people than continuing to pump money into the prison industry to house nonviolent minor drug offenders.