... that tested employees are chosen through a truly random method with no supervisory input to avoid stereotyping any employees. Once an employer has determined the circumstances under which it will test employees for drugs and alcohol, the actual testing process is the next legal hurdle, which must 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...

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... 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 ... must be done in a certain manner. Someone who is incoherent because of drug abuse cannot be a pilot for example. This is why employers can test to see if characteristics or tendencies would affect performance. An employee may not want to give a urine or blood sample. The employee may not wan...

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... 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 would be less concerned about whether their employees were using drugs. Many companies also violate a person's rights by forcing ... drug tests or by having their personal belongings searched. You do not have to pass a drug test to get the job and the only time they do a drug test is if you have on on-the-job injury. In many cases, however,...

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... objects, loss in sense of time, 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 the chemical was used. When marijuana ... ...

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... tests are mandatory for employment. When it 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, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Department of Energy ... reasons for testing. The company's reputation is on the line. Workplace drug testing in America is being forced on employers for economic and safety reasons. Drug companies that do not test wil...

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... ability and 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 test to meet the child's attention deficit. It is quite often found that the majority of ADHD children improve with psycho pharmaceuticals, specifically stimulants such as Ritalin. Results reveal that medication ... families Drug abuse by mother Alcohol abuse by mother Problems in mother's pregnancy Birth trauma Early child abuse Brain injuries from accidents Meningitis Encephalitis Low-level lead poiso...

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... listening outside stalls as they provided their samples in private. Drug education seminars or suspension from the team for two athletic seasons were the consequences that one faced if their test result was positive. One seventh grader, James Acton, disagreed with this policy and refused to submit a urine sample. Acton's defiance resulted in his being thrown off of the football team ... find it unnecessary because "if school officials have reason to believe that a particular student is using drugs, they already have the power to require that student to submit to a drug test" (ACLU, 1997...

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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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... certain places (ex. privacy of your own home, in certain smoke shops). Also, no one should be able to drive under the influence of marijuana. I"m not sure how one could test this since it does stay in your system for about a month, but I"m sure the government would come up with a solution for this. Also, people should not be penalized for smoking ... ...

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... few if any Olympic and professional level athletes. Still the most effective way to remove anabolic steroids from competitive sports is through systematic drug testing. Athletes who fail the steroid test will be prohibited from competing. While testing for anabolic steroids is not perfect, it does remove, or at least identified steroid-users in their sports and also serves as the ... ...

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... to harder drugs. Today, marijuana is getting closer to legalization. With states starting to legalize it for medicinal purposes, marijuana may soon be compared to a simple cigarette. Even though many test are being done to prove marijuana as a harmful drug, the truth of the matter is that it is not. In conclusion, marijuana is a rather harmless drug compared to the legal ... ...

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... . Also, the tests can pick up substances that you can find in everyday life such as food or over the counter medicine and come back positive. Then when an athlete test come back positive it sometimes makes the sport a long with the team seem like drug abusers. Lawrence Taylor, a football player for the New York Giants was suspended for drug abuse ... ...

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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 ... ...

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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 ... ...

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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 and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana ... ...

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... a fetus is not a person in the eyes of the law. Seventeen states have enacted civil laws making it possible for authorities to take away the children of pregnant women who test positive for drugs. In 1997, South Carolina's Supreme Court stated that drug using pregnant women can be prosecuted criminally and sentenced to as much as 10 years in prison. Hospital ... ...

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