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Article Review: Everyone Must Not Get Stoned
This review will look at the problem outlined in the article, the issues related to the problem, the implications of the article to employees, employers, and society, the ramifications if the problem is not addressed, the benefits of resolving the problem and finally, solutions provided in the article.
The United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) conducted a workplace drug abuse survey on 14 different industries including the foodservice industry. According to SAMHSA’s findings, the foodservice industry was classified as being the third, which is an improvement since the last survey that put the industry first place with a 16.5% employees drug usage (5.3% employees higher than the recent result); however, it is still very alarming. This makes everyone look at co-workers differently.
The problem is that 38.5% of employees surveyed claim that their workplace does not provide them with......

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