in the recent years. More companies are beginning to use it and more people are starting

more to have problems with it. The tests are now more than ever seen as a way to stop the

problems of drug abuse in the workplace. This brings up a very large question. Is drug

testing an ethical way to decide employee drug use? It is also very hard to decide if the

test is an invasion of employee privacy. “The ethical status of workplace drug testing can

be expressed as a question of competing interests, between the employer’s right to use

testing to reduce drug related harms and maximize profits, over against the employee’s

right to privacy, particularly with regard to drug use which occurs outside the

workplace.” (Cranford 2) The rights of the employee have to be considered. The Supreme

Court case, Griswold vs. Connecticut outlines the idea that every person is entitled to a

privacy zone. However this definition covers privacy and protection from government.

To work productively especially when the work may be physical it is nearly impossible to

problems of drugs. It could possibly be argued that since employers have to allow their

because it has no everyday effect on their work. Unless the person perishes in a crash,

Someone who is incoherent because of drug abuse cannot be a pilot for example. This is

sickness go away but addictions are constant and not allowable. The work that the

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