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Employers: Reduce you insurance costs!
When employers hire workers that are smokers, the insurance costs are higher. At DATCS, we can test your prospective employees for NICOTINE. A simple urine drug screen can tell you if you are hiring someone who uses tobacco in any form. If you have a policy to hire...
What CDL Drivers Need to Know
Overview of Drug and Alcohol Rules The United States Congress recognized the need for a drug and alcohol free transportation industry, and in 1991 passed the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act, requiring DOT agencies to implement drug and alcohol testing of...
DEATHS AND POISONINGS FROM SYNTHETIC MARIJUANA
Big increase in deaths, poisonings from synthetic marijuana Synthetic marijuana is back in the news, with some frightening revelations. New figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show synthetic marijuana killed 15 people in the first half of 2015...
DATCS: WICHITA FALLS, TX – DOT COMPLIANCE TESTING
DATCS at Wichita Falls is our northern location in Texas. We do DOT Consortium, DOT Drug and Alcohol Compliance. Click show more for a interactive map which you can use to find your way here! Our hours are 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday but we also offer weekend...
USE OF ILLICIT DRUGS ON THE RISE
Use of illicit drugs, including marijuana, has been rising steadily among college-aged young adults. In addition, non-medical use of stimulants, including Adderall and Ritalin, has more than doubled in the past few years. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)...
Criminal Background Check Shreveport LA: The Past Can Come Back To You
Owning or operating a business carries with it the possibility of a great number of unforeseen occurrences like weather-related delays in your shipping or software glitches that can keep you from processing orders. Â But the last kind of surprise you want is finding...
DATCS Criminal Background Check Shreveport LA: Take The Guess Work Out Of Your Hiring Process
First impressions are important, but how do you know what a potential employee is really like? With a Criminal Background Check Shreveport LA done by your professionals at DATCS, you can take the guess work out of who to hire. When you are not being forced to guess...
Criminal Background Check Shreveport LA: Know Who’s Working For You
Do you know who’s working for you?  You should know everything about your employees to protect yourself, your staff and your business.  That’s where a criminal background check in Shreveport LA comes in.  A criminal background check can find out more about your...
ER Visits for Synthetic Marijuana Rising
There were 11,406 emergency room visits associated with synthetic marijuana in 2010—75 percent were among the ages of 12-29. Synthetic marijuana currently holds second place in teenage popularity behind marijuana. Researchers claim the allure is the ill-perceived...
Synthetic Marijuana Emergencies Quadruple from 2014
Health officials are brainstorming ideas of how to combat the nationwide outpouring of hospital visits for synthetic marijuana. During April alone, there were more than 1,000 illnesses from this substance, which is double the amount from January and March, the...