True or False: Most studies show that people in the 18-25 year old age groups are by far the heaviest users and experimenters when it comes to drug use.

The class of drugs known as inhalants include_________ . The idea that drug consumption is found across all income levels, social classes, races, ethnicities, lifestyles, and age groups refers to drugs as .

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The average age of first marijuana use is 14, and alcohol use can start before age 12. The use of marijuana and alcohol in high school has become common. Often teenagers use other family members’ or friends’ medications to get high.

The highest rate of current illicit drug use was among youth ages 18 to 20 (22.7%), with the next highest rate occurring among people ages 21 to 25 (21.5%).

Results show that adolescents (aged 12–17) were more likely to report stimulant prescription drugs and OTC medicines (45.3% and 32.1%, respectively) than the other prescription drug types, whereas adults 18 years and older were more likely to report opioids (88.9%) as their primary drug of abuse (this compares to only …

A person’s genes, the action of the drug, peer pressure, emotional distress, anxiety, depression, and environmental stress can all be factors. Many who develop a substance use problem have depression, attention deficit disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, or another mental problem.

While employees who promote gambling by running numbers games can be fired for just one instance of such misconduct, employees whose misconduct on or off the job is the result of compulsive or pathological gambling have a strong affirmative defense restricting the employer’s attempts to fire for just cause.

Under the ADA, an employer can terminate an employee if they are using drugs or alcohol on the job, if substance use impacts performance or productivity or if substance use creates unsafe conditions on the job.

While it is true that employees guilty of drug use, even outside work, leave themselves exposed to dismissal on grounds of either capability, conduct or “some other substantial reason” (especially if use of the drugs in question is itself illegal) that decision cannot be automatic.

Can your employer keep track of what you do when you’re not at work? Today, employers have the technological means, and occasionally the inclination, to find out what workers are doing on their own time. However, their right to monitor what you do off the job—and make decisions based on that conduct—is limited.

The bottom line. In almost all cases, an employer can legally fire an employee for inappropriate behavior during personal time. The First Amendment doesn’t apply to work and employers have wide latitude to terminate people for things they say and do.

Dismissal for conduct outside of work is nothing new. It is a balancing act of the employee’s right to privacy and the employer’s right to protect its reputation. Their guidance states “if an employee is charged with, or convicted of a criminal offence this is not normally in itself reason for disciplinary action.

In almost all cases, an employer can legally end someone’s employment for inappropriate behavior during personal time. Generally speaking, you can’t be arrested for saying abhorrent things, but you can be fired.

When an employee has engaged in inappropriate behaviour, it is incumbent on the employer to take reasonable and proportionate disciplinary action. Termination of employment will not be an appropriate response in every case.

Can You Fire an Employee Who Has a Bad Attitude? The short answer is yes, as this is a great reason to let an employee go—but only if you can’t fix the problem. Chances are that you can fix the problem. After all, you don’t want to lose an employee who does a good job if you don’t have to.

The simple answer is, “yes.” If your spouse goes public with his or her criticism or disapproval of your employer, it is possible you could be held accountable. It’s not fair, but in many instances it’s within your employer’s rights to take action against you.