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Monday, October 23, 2006

Meth's hidden cost at the workplace

Meth's hidden cost at the workplace
In StarTribune.com Business
Through the mire of their addiction, while they still had jobs left to lose, Fred Johnson and his wife, Jessica Hauge-Johnson, did a final check on one another every morning. "How do my eyes look?" he'd ask. "How do mine look?" she'd ask back. If their pupils still looked dark and dilated from a night of methamphetamine, they knew better than to go to work. And they missed a lot of work in about eight years of office and factory jobs. They lied to employers to excuse their absences. When Hauge-Johnson's weight dropped to 103 pounds, she feigned an eating disorder. And when they did

 



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