Nationwide Drug Testing and On-Site Medical Services By Mobile Medical Corporation

WRAL in North Carolina recently reported that the Happy Mart Tobacco Shop in Clinton, North Carolina was recently raided in an ongoing two month fraud investigation.   The store owners were charged with defrauding drug and alcohol screen tests , dispensing medication without a license, sale of glass tubes by a retailer and manufacturing or delivering drug paraphernalia.  Authorities discovered over a dozen glass tubes commonly used for smoking crack cocaine and antibiotics and other prescription drugs from Latin America in the store.   Police also seized a dozen containers of Magnum Detox Novelty Synthetic Urine.    Magnum Detox is used to cheat urine drug tests.  Drug testing companies and authorities are catching on to this new rash of cheating. If a user is caught it is usually during the collection period as the temperature of the fake urine is usually not body temperature. Companies are catching on and can now analyze to see when the fake urine has...

With the tragedy of the Costa Concordia shipwreck last week several questions have arisen on the state of Captain Francesco Schettino and whether or not he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.   Pier Luigi Foschi, the President of Costa Cruises was questioned by local press if he thought that Captain Schettino was under the influence of drugs or alcohol .  Foschi replied that he thought the captain's behavior was emotionally unbalanced.   Captain Francesco Schettino submitted to a substance abuse test after the incident in which later his lawyers revealed that a clean toxicology report was returned.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA) released a poll this fall that showed the practice of requiring job applicants to take a pre-employment drug test appears to be gaining acceptance from employers. The September 7, 2011 poll revealed that  fifty-seven percent of the survey participants’ organizations require all job candidates to take a pre-employment drug test, while less than a third (29 percent) do not have a pre-employment drug-testing requirement. The remaining 14 percent of respondents test applicants for safety-sensitive positions and when required by state law. The poll, which was commissioned by DATIA and conducted by SHRM, surveyed 1,058 randomly selected HR professionals and featured questions about employers’ drug-testing policies and practices. Mobile Medical Corporation's Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs can help to stem the costs of "working" under the influence. Pittsburgh...

Pittsburgh's KDKA recently reported that an A.J. Myers and Sons bus company driver was recently arrested for intoxication prior to making his run to pick up Woodland Hills School District students.   The driver stopped into Bishop’s Pizza in Turtle Creek, PA reeking of booze and re sponsible employees of the shop called police to report him when they realized that he was a school bus driver.   Wilkins Township Police Officer Jon Sherman said, “They reported that a van driver, a school van driver, came into their business and he smelled of alcohol."   The police took the driver to the hospital for an alcohol blood test and pending the results the driver could be facing DUI and other charges as well as possible recklessly endangerment. The Office of National Drug Control Policy claims that drugs and alcohol cost taxpayers more than $300 billion annually in preventable health care costs, extra law enforcement, auto crashes, crime and lost job productivity. Mo...

Phillip Koch is the President of Ho-Ho-Holdings LLC, based in Santa Claus, Indiana and was recently arrested for being under the influence of Methamphetamine and other substances.   Local police say he Koch rear-ended a stopped car at a stop light.   Last month the Santa Claus business owner was charged with domestic battery.   Needless to say that Koch will be receiving nothing but coal for Christmas this year.

With the holiday season upon us, Mobile Medical Corporation ( MMC ) would like to remind everyone of the elevated risks of drunk driving and alcohol related incidents on our nations roads and highways. In an effort to provide awareness, MMC would like to share the following report titled Rating the State's Drunk Driving Efforts compiled by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). MADD continues to call on the nation to rededicate itself to saving lives, preventing injuries and eliminating drunk driving on our nation’s roadways.  MADD statistics report that drunk driving costs the United States more than $132 billion annually. Please click the map below to access MADD's map detailing the 50 states and their efforts to curb drunk driving.

Since the 1960's the sport of surfing has always been surrounded by the negative bad boy image of partying, drugs and alcohol. The partying atmosphere has taken its toll on surfers throughout the generations leading to last years overdose death of surfing great Andy Irons .  The Association of Surfing Professionals  (ASP) will begin substance abuse testing next year in hopes of protecting their members and overall image.  What type of drugs will be tested and what methods have yet to be determined.  “It’s been a long time coming,” said Hawaiian event representative Randy Rarick. Details are vague, but the testing is expected to be in place for the Quiksilver Pro on the Gold Coast, the first event for 2012. Drugs and Surfing Jeff Hakman Born in 1948 in California. At only 17 years old, he beat some of the world's best surfers and found International fame, and in 1966 he was proclaimed the world's top big-wave rider. In the late 60s to early 70s he launched t...