If you were listening in school, rather than dropping off to sleep over your desk, you may have heard about all the examples of mass hysteria in 
history which, today, we think might have been caused by accidental ingestion or use of mind altering drugs.
Paranoia is dangerous enough when it is infecting just one individual. It makes them do things like shoot people with guns, hold people hostages, try to take on the government (which automatically has more artillery, thus being a very unwise choice), hurt themselves, or kill a lot of people at once.
When paranoia strikes a mob, however, then it becomes one of the most dangerous things on this earth of ours. It causes mass numbers of people to act in very inhuman and very illogical and unreasoning ways. It causes fear that cannot be reasoned with or quieted by the lone voice of one steady individual. It brings violence and destruction upon families and entire communities.
It is believed that the Salem Witch Trials of Northern America were perhaps caused, not by Puritanical suspicion, but by ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms (commonly referred to as “shrooms”) or by the ingestion of some other drug of which they were unaware. People were burned at the stake, sentenced to hanging, and various other societal snubbing, eviction, torture or forms of death. It was so bad that, today, we really are concerned that perhaps it was not caused by drugs, after all, but by human nature taking its course.
Obviously, you don’t want that kind of paranoia in your own business, whatever the case may have been during any of the witch trials held around the world.
Drug abuse notoriously brings on lack of mental skills and lack of lucidity, and this can cause a lot of problems at work where there are a lot of people, including employees, customers, and maybe passersby. That creates a situation which must, if possible, be controlled. Since we cannot control humans no matter how much we try, the second best thing is workplace drug testing. Mediscreen is one of the leaders in Australia in onsite drug and alcohol screening. We provide high quality drug screening to your employees, and we are even accredited by NATA for urine testing. Keep your workplace calm and lucid by using onsite drug and alcohol testing on a regular basis. Call Mediscreen today: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.
