Drug Screens

A pH strip can help an employer to detect a urine sample that could give a false negative result. That fact has uncovered attempts by some employees to disguise their drug use during a number of urine drug screens. Yet a pH strip can not reveal the ability of a sample to give a false positive result. That is why employers are cautioned against a reliance on the results their urine drug screens. The following article provides details on the confirmatory tests that employers should turn to, in order to obtain the needed confirmation of a positive result from any drug screen. Read the rest of this entry »

Although society did not remain blind to drug use by adults in the 1960s, the employers of that decade did not initiate the use of drug screens. One explanation for the absence of drug screens at that time can be found in the publication of the novel titled Valley of the Dolls. That novel pointed out the prevalence of drug use among many “desperate housewives.” Obviously such housewives were not then in the workforce. Had they been working at that time, drug testing would no doubt have started much sooner. Read the rest of this entry »

The introduction in more and more companies of drug testing programs has lead to the development of several different types of drug screens. A number of companies purchase and use those screens.  In some cases, the increased production sought by use of drug screens has not paid for the costs of performing such screens. For that reason, the cost of drug screening procedures has become an important issue. It is an issue that will require a careful cost-benefit analysis. It is an issue that demands attention to specific cost savings, the cost savings obtained by any organizations that select certain of the screening methods. Read the rest of this entry »

Drug memories eating at my insides. Pain and black bloody socks underneath springs of musty bedrooms as man-boy trippy posters of freddy krueger on acid beating some bloody wrestler to a crying pulp gigging over some airbrushed hot model. It was just a collage on my wall, but in my state it was alive and breathing, staring at me as I was staring at it. I didn’t know how to pass a drug screen, and one was coming at work. What was I going to do? I was going to have to pass a drug screen or lose my job, and it was too late to pass a screening without some help. Read the rest of this entry »

The subject of drug screens has aroused a good deal of controversy. Members of the ACLU are firmly against any drug screens in the workplace. They agree that employers need to have employees who can perform well and can produce results. Still, they contend that it is unfair to test all employees, even those not suspected of drug abuse. Those who have written the argument for the ACLU have failed to mention the use of medicolegal drug tests. The following article uses information on those medicolegal tests to poke a hole in the ACLU’s argument.

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