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I worked in an office that did perform background checks and wouldn't hire ex-convicts. Curiously, the drug addicts who worked there tended to be highly functio
by neurobro 12y ago
I worked in an office that did perform background checks and wouldn't hire ex-convicts. Curiously, the drug addicts who worked there tended to be highly functional and even successful.
Crap, our anecdotes paint different pictures. Could it be that neither of our samples is representative of "drug users" as a population?
- Natsu 12y agoSomeone who hid their illegal activities so well must have been a skilled liar. And skilled liars are often highly successful, but this isn't often argued as a good thing...
- neurobro 12y agoI'm not sure whether some drugs have the effect of turning users into skilled liars or not, but that does sound like it would be yet another harmful (though logical) side-effect of prohibition.
- glenra 12y agoSome studies have found that illegal drug users earn more than average and are more productive than average. Though in searching for the relevant studies, the first thing I found was this followup: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7287.1998.tb00523.x/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7287.1998.... Quote: "Using various measures of current and lifetime drug use and accounting for alcohol-use comorbidity, the authors find predominantly insignificant relationships (both direct and indirect) between drug use and both wages and absenteeism, regardless of gender."