Does Your Bakken Crew Need Drug Testing?

Busts in the past six months have put yet another spotlight on drug use and trafficking issues in the Bakken.Late last year in Billings, Mont., a dozen people were indicted on federal charges alleging they were involved in a ring that distributed methamphetamines in the Bakken oil patch and in other cities and towns across Montana. The state’s attorney general said the drug ring sought to exploit the Bakken’s booming economy, but it was broken up by authorities working to curtail rising crime rates in the oil patch. And with those in the drug trade recognizing the Bakken as a