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Friend,
The drug war has invaded the workplace with disastrous drug testing and drug record discrimination policies that deny people access to stable employment.
We’ll be exploring this important topic next Wednesday, October 27, and I hope you will join us for our Uprooting the Drug War Discussion Series: Employment, the Drug War, and Economic Disaster.
We’re proud to be co-hosting this webinar with Center for Employment Opportunities. It will bring together advocates, researchers, and directly impacted people to explore the ways in which the drug war has infiltrated the workplace and how we can generate solutions for change.
Employment is important to individuals and communities. Yet for decades, workplaces have been able to deny people jobs based on a drug test or due to a criminal record even though there is a lack of any evidence linking drug testing to work performance or workplace safety.
Drug tests cannot determine if drug use will impact a person’s ability to perform their work or create a safety risk – but drug testing policies are a major infringement on workers’ privacy.
These counterproductive and exclusionary policies have robbed people from one of the most important factors associated with a reduction in potential negative consequences of drug use — access to stable employment.
Instead of needlessly disqualifying people from jobs based on drug tests and criminal records, we should focus on giving people more opportunity.
You can learn more by registering to join us on October 27 or by visiting our site.
This is the sixth and final webinar wrapping up our months-long Uprooting the Drug War Discussion Series. We are grateful to all our partners, speakers, and participants that made these discussions a success.
With your support, we’re doing everything we can to expose how the drug war has infiltrated every aspect of society and uproot it from our everyday lives.
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Sincerely,
Melissa Moore
Director, Civil Systems Reform
Drug Policy Alliance |
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