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"We drug test everyone in the states nowadays -- our students, our athletes," he said. "It's a condition for employment in many federal and private agencies." However, "one in 20 [tested patients] are going to have inaccurate results, and those are more likely to be false positive than false negative."
Drug Abuse Test Results Often Flawed
Seeded on Mon May 24, 2010 11:58 AM EDT
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The infatuation that the US has with drug-testing employees has never made much sense to me, particularly given how hard it was to get professional baseball players to submit to it. Not that I would have any problems these days, but I'm really pleased it's not a part of our culture.
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#2 - Mon May 24, 2010 1:57 PM EDTI have no problem with taking a drug test in relationship to diagnosis...however I will not give my permission to share the information with anyone....(medical privacy). If an employer does not want to hire me due to the fact I refuse to disclose personal medical info....then....fine. I don't want to work for someone who thinks they have a right to invade my privacy...I might have to sue them....so what's the point?
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Other than pot, most of the substances get out of your system in about a week so what are you really accomplishing with drug testing? No pot heads (who would have to abstain for a month or two to pass), but you can have a crackhead (who went a week without), or pillhead (who doctor shops - and has a prescription) working for you. What good is that?
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#3 - Mon May 24, 2010 2:18 PM EDTGood for incompetents.....ignoramuses, jerks, and swine....apparently.
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I'm convinced there are a lot of false positives. My oldest son had a bad cold and took otc cold medicine and ate a poppy seed bagel. His drug test came back positive for opiates and as a result he lost a job as a cardiac monitor tech. He does NOT use illegal drugs of ANY kind!
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#4 - Tue May 25, 2010 8:17 AM EDTYou illustrated the problem with this test. Who wants to risk a false positive, a test result on the record that follows you the rest of your life. Not me!
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What gets me is who is exempt from getting tested - law enforcement after being hired, judges, lawyers, congress, ect. Man, you have to have a background check to do a masonry job these days.
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How they keep us unemployed. One false positive on a drug test....your done.
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