VALDOSTA – Monday morning, South Georgia businesses celebrated 20 years of ‘Drugs Don’t Work.’
The program promotes a drug-free workplace.
It encourages drug testing and educates employees to say no.
Eleven different local chambers have adopted the program.
It all started in Valdosta with a grant from the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office, during Ashley Paulk’s earlier terms as Sheriff.
“You look at the savings of people being injured or losing a good employee to the drug scene,” says Sheriff Paulk, a DDW founder. “There’s just a vast majority of other benefits to it, so I think it will continue to grow.”
The Valdosta-Lowndes Chamber says it saves companies money on their annual workers comp premiums.
They say it’s made a $3 million difference for over 200 businesses in the last 20 years.
