The restaurant industry is a very stressful business. It takes a certain person to serve people and to juggle the stress that goes along with serving the public. Some people feel that dealing with the stress of the job is much easier when you are under the influence of drugs. As a server, I can understand why fellow servers feel the need ... do on your own time is your business. As long as your habit does not interfere with your performance, your employer should have no right to subject you to a drug test. I also think that if restaurants offered substance abuse prevention programs, they wou...

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... be properly addressed. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires that the testing process be reasonable and not overly intrusive. Employers are violating employee rights on how the test is conducted. (Felman/Petrini) While random drug testing may be necessary to ensure alertness and sobriety in certain occupations, such as train engineers, airline pilots, truck drivers, nuclear power ... related injuries caused by drug and alcohol. With forty-four percent of young adults, admit to having used drugs in the past year employers are taking percussion. These are the pe...

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... ethics of drug testing has become an increased concern for many companies 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 ... has purchased the employees time, the employer has a proprietary right to ensure that the time purchased is used as efficiently as possible."(Cranford 6) Many people have a problem with employees having to choose between their job and their drugs. For example what if the person is hooked and cannot do anything about .....

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... red Skin, loss of memory, and dizziness. Depending on which test is used to determine if a person has used marijuana a test can pick up traces of THC anywhere between 1 week and 5 years after use. The most common test is a urine test which picks up traces of the chemical up to a week after ... attempt to rid itself of the foreign chemical, chemically transforms the THC into metabolites. Urine tests can detect THC metabolites for up to a week after people have smoked marijuana. Tests involving radioactively labeled THC have traced these metabolites in animals for up to a month. (National I...

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... benefit from. Mandatory drug testing is a violation of the Fourth Amendment's ban on "unreasonable searches and seizures." An official must have a suspicion of drug use before they are allowed to test. But apparently some schools think their right to stop drug abuse is greater than the student's right to privacy. There are even a few schools that have gone as far as ... treating students who refuse the drug tests the same as students who test positive for drugs! Students should not have to give up their privacy to schools for something that will only affect the very few who abuse drugs....

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... comes to employees, however the response might be more along the lines of what does passing a drug test have to do with my ability to do the job. Conditions employers should test for drugs is to comply with Federal regulations, (e.g., the Department of Transportation, Department of Defense, ... because they do not address the root problems that lead to substance abuse. Good management and counseling can. Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) helps people facing emotional, health, financial or substance abuse problems that can affect job performance. EAP counselors then decide what type of ...

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... learning environment they are usually met with anger, punishment, and rejection. In turn these children develop a low-self esteem and low levels of motivation. Even though ADHD occurs in people with various intelligence levels, a majority of children affected experience academic problems. These children may have specific learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, or may have multiple learning problems. Learning ... to search for learning disabilities. Tests such as the Wechler Intelligence Scale are used for intelligence testing; yet, much debate exists because of the need to change the te...

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... or scared that others might see the results thinking what if my mom sees these results I could get in trouble this would cause them to alter the results of the test causing them to give the end result poor validity.3 Studies or evidence found in the past have supported the findings which the article just said no had found. In 1999 ... in drug use were caused by the change pf attitudes towards the drugs. Most eighth graders had a disapproval of drugs these days. All this research is significant to many different people, such as the police, schools and parents. For example, if cops saw th...

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... proper and most effective way of dealing with the "steroid problem" has been debated for quite some time, but the Control Act has been found to deter trafficking, protects young people, and preserves fair competition in sports. The following exert is from an editorial by M.G. Di Pasquale concerning drugs and sports. "Contrary to what most ... people believe (the media's irresponsible sensationalism has resulted in the widely held mistaken view that the use by athletes of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs is a problem on par ... few if any Olympic and professional...

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... achieve benefits from the drug, patients would literally have to be stoned all the time. Unfortunately, the "efficacy" of marijuana is unclear because as an illicit drug studies to adequately test it have been thwarted by drug control agencies. Scientist say that marijuana can negatively affect cognition and motor function. It also affects short term memory and can interfere with perception ... and learning. Physical health effects include lung damage. One person who is against the legalization of marijuana as medicine is Eric A. Voth. He states that when people say legalizing marijuana...

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... First off, marijuana is no more harmful or possibly less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. "[Alcohol] Another highly addictive substance, upwards of 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning (this doesn't count drunk driving, other accidents, liver disease or kidney failure). To make matters worse, alcohol is ... and rape cases, up to 2/3 of all assaults and a quarter of all suicides." (1). Where do you see marijuana doing that? Marijuana does not make people violent. At least from my own personal experiences I am far, far from violent. Also I do drink alcohol, but I would much ra...

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... to gain an edge over there opponents. Such steroids like Ephedrine or Ephedra have caused death to people that have taken the drugs along with sorrow to the families of the participants. Some people feel that administering drug tests will level out the playing field and help prevent health issues. Due ... rising controversy that drug testing violates the 4th amendment of the constitution which defends and protects the rights of Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures. Many people that testing the athletes is an invasions of ones privacy. What an athletes decides to there own ...

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... made an illegal narcotic, there have been many arguments over its illegal status. Why is such a commonly used drug such a problem to most people? Well, the answer may be that not everyone fully understands what happens to a person when he or she is intoxicated from marijuana. Ignorance about marijuana ... is a problem for most people today. Efforts to make marijuana illegal began in the early 1900s. In 1930, the lack of scientific knowledge concerning marijuana led the National ... depends on the personality and type of user. Most marijuana users only experiment as far as marijuana and ...

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One of the most controversial issues in the United States is over medical marijuana. Many experiments test the validity of the drug as a medicine, and results of these experiments receive much praise but also some critique. The DEA ... 's benefits. If a certain plant can help ease the suffering of our fellow citizens than why not take advantage from it. Not only can this help people who suffer but the rest of society. With medical marijuana around, congress can spend less money fighting marijuana and concentrate on more important issues. One problem ... Then-presidential candidate, Bush sai...

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