Over 1m going to work with drugs

More than a million Britons are going to work with drugs in their system, a study suggests.
Around one in 30 employees tested at work last year had taken narcotics, with the most commonly-used drugs being cannabis, opiates and cocaine, figures from a drug-testing firm have revealed.
Drug-use among employees was up 43 per cent from 2007, rising to 3.23 per cent of the workforce last year.
The country’s most senior police officer told employers earlier this year to consider drug-testing middle-class professionals to help stem Britain’s spiralling cocaine trade.

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Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said affluent workers are fuelling the £1 billion (Dh5.76 billion) annual market in the drug.
He said many of them are working in roles, including surgeons, teachers and drivers, where cocaine use risks lives.