Drug Recognition for Employers

Lt. Terry Choate and Joe Hileman
Blue U Corporate REsources

 

Drugs, and therefore addiction and distribution are prevalent everywhere! This problem exists from the extreme smallest communities to the largest cities in this country, from the smallest schools and businesses to the largest, and from the most respectable people to the least.
The problem? With addiction comes tremendous negative impact to educational institutions, businesses and families. Addiction brings not only liability issues from a safety perspective, but also decreased productivity, quality issues and disruption to business. Recognizing potential addiction problems in employees, students AND family can bring tremendous advantage not only to your organization, but in helping those who suffer from addiction. Regardless of whether student, employee or family member, we care about them.
This course will help you recognize and understand the signs of addiction, the dangerous items that accompany addiction, and those who suffer from addiction, and provide some remedies with the problem should you encounter it in your life.
Some of the topics covered in the course include:
The extent of the Problem; How it Affects Your Organizations; Some Surprising Facts; Human Signs of Addiction; Understanding Addicts (They are not bad people); Physical Signs of Addictions (Drugs and Paraphenalia); Laws Governing Random Drug Testing (School/Business); The State of the System for Resources; Dealing With Known Drug Problems; Dealing With Suspected Drug Problems; Policy Related to Potential Drug Addiction; Recognizing the Signs of Drug Distribution; Possible Remedies

Terry Choate is a full-time Lieutenant with the Jaffrey NH Police Department where he has served for the past 9 years. Prior to a career change to law enforcement, Terry has  served in several executive level leadership positions in several large corporations to include Fortune 500 and in positions Vice President of Sales/Marketing; Vice President of Operations; Vice President of Distribution; Human Resources; Customer Relations; Manufacturing and more. Terry is  the Team Commander of the Monadnock Regional Special Response Team with extensive training in high risk tactics, tactical team management, investigations  and drug work.

 

Terry's passion since his teens years has been criminal psychology, understanding of the human mind to include the criminal mind, and how this understanding can be practically and effectively applied to keeping people and businesses safe and how this understanding provides methods for mind manipulation that can be used to raise success levels in any area of life to new heights, and provide for a foundation to win during a violent confrontations. 

Terry's  passion is in continuous improvement of skills, product improvement, and increasing knowledge in the areas that Blue-U Defense instructs in to ensure that the company is providing the most complete, practical and effective methods available. He reads 100's of books each year, attends numerous training courses, watches 100's of videos, etc in pursuit of these goals. 

 

Terry also has extensive training and expertise in the areas of physical site security, threat assessment, and executive protection. Terry was responsible for and successfully completed the Security Assessment for the Jaffrey Fireworks Festival, a venue of 35,000+ people, following a bomb threat. 

Terry lives in Hancock, NH with his wife of 28 years. He is a father of one son and grandfather of a beautiful baby girl. 

 

Some of his training includes:

 

N.H. Tactical Officers Association - SWAT 1&2

LEADS Consulting (LAPD) - SWAT 1&2

LEADS Consulting (LAPD) - Team Commander School

FBI Crisis Negotiator

Field Training Officer

N.H. Prosecutor School

Response to Active Shooter

Isreali Response to Active Shooter

C.A.R.V.E.R Vulnerability Security Assessment Training

Executive Security International