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Losing Your Career to Drugs

What illegal drug use can cost you

The Internet makes background checks a snap, so you can’t hide. And even a misdemeanor drug conviction can have lifetime consequences and limit your career choices.

By Karen AhoA joint. A tab of Ecstasy. A ride in a cocaine user’s car. It doesn’t take much to be convicted of a drug offense.

And the fine, jail time and probation are the least of your worries. It’s your future that’s really in trouble.

For the entire article go to Msn.com

Since we are based in Los Angeles, Corra is well aware of the many celebrities who ruined their careers on drugs. The media outlets and the rehab clinics are filled with brand names who have become tragic stories in one form or another.

The thing is you don’t want your business getting unwanted publicity because one of your employees was suffering from drug abuse. You need neither the exposure nor the litigation issues that often accompany such behavior.

Prevention is the cure on this. Conducting drug tests in addition to your criminal and other other background searches may well be a good idea. Corra offers drug testing in all parts of the country through its lab partners. Soon we will be having a paperless, electronic drug test.

Drug testing is something to consider. Before you have a problem.

Check them out before you hire.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.