There must be a national urine shortage. How else can we explain that people so willingly accept drug testing when supposedly only 6 percent or so of the population are actually past month drug users? By definition 94 percent of the people are not using drugs, so why are they all suspects? Also, if drug users can only be detected through urinalysis, what sort of "problems" can they actually be causing? The rates of workplace injuries and fatalities have been declining for decades while, drug use has remained steady and/or risen over most of the same time period. |
You can't tell who they are -- so what's the problem? | |||
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Year | Headline | Publication | Issue Date |
1970 | Pot-smoking young executives | Duns Review | Feb |
1970 | Rising problem of drugs on the job | Time | Jun 29 |
1970 | Drug culture | Business Week | Aug 15 |
1970 | Drug threat in business | Nation | Nov 16 |
1971 | Drugs and drinking in the business world | US News | Mar 22 |
1972 | Drug sickness: no company immune | Nations Business | Nov |
1973 | Marijuana vs. the work ethic: the amotivational syndrome | Science Digest | Nov |
1976 | Employed addict does better job than you think | Psychology Today | Aug |
1979 | White collar pill-poppers | Human Behavior | Mar |
1980 | Drugs on the job: the quiet problem | Newsweek | Sep 15 |
1982 | Joining the war on drug abuse | Nations Business | Jun |
1983 | Is show biz pushing drugs? The big debate | US News | May 16 |
1983 | Taking drugs on the job | Newsweek | Aug 22 |
1983 | Getting tough on worker abuse of drugs, alcohol | US News | Dec 5 |
1984 | The hidden scourge of drugs in the workplace | Reader's Digest | Feb |
1985 | Companies are starting to sniff out cocaine users | Business Week | Feb 18 |
1985 | Drug testing gaining widespread use in U.S. | Jet | Jun 10 |
1985 | The executive addict | Fortune | Jun 24 |
1985 | Worker drug tests spread despite deep controversy | Money | Oct |
1985 | Using drugs? You may not get hired | US News | Dec 23 |
1986 | Battling drugs on the job | Time | Jan 27 |
1986 | Why drug testing can be a very bad trip | Discover | Mar |
1986 | Corporate America's hidden cocaine crisis | Working Woman | Mar |
1986 | N.J. firemen and police suspended for drug use | Jet | Aug 11 |
1986 | Business' war on drugs | Nations Business | Oct |
1986 | The drug wars will be won with treatment, not tests | Business Week | Oct 13 |
1986 | This is what you thought: 56% say no to drug testing | Glamour | Nov |
1987 | High on the job: a growing problem? | Psychology Today | May |
1988 | NIH scientists balk at random drug tests | Science | Feb 12 |
1988 | Your boss is not a cop | New Republic | Jun 6 |
1988 | Congress to business: 'just say no' | Business Week | Jun 20 |
1988 | Court bars pre-employment drug testing | Publisher's Weekly | Jun 24 |
1988 | House fails to require drug testing of pilots | Aviation Week | Oct 31 |
1989 | The most effective weapon in the war against drugs: the paycheck | Nations Business | Jul |
1989 | Business moves against drugs | Nations Business | Nov |
1989 | Drug testing here to stay | USA Today (Periodical) | Dec |
1990 | Body invaders [employee drug testing] | Nation | Jan 8-15 |
1990 | Here come the specimen jars | Time | Jan 29 |
1990 | Does he or doesn't he? New drug tests target hair | US News | May 28 |
1990 | Can we stop drug abuse in the workplace? | USA Today (Periodical) | Jul |
1991 | Anti-drug programs in the workplace: are they here to stay? | Monthly Labor Review | Apr |
1991 | A video game that tells if employees are fit for work | Business Week | Jun 3 |
1991 | Drug testing in the 90's common and controversial | Glamour | Jul |
1991 | Valley of the nerds [psychedelic use among computer visionaries] | Gentleman's Quarterly | Jul |
1991 | Reading the signs of employee drug use | Working Woman | Aug |
1991 | Airline unions want random tests cut after they reveal low level of drug abuse | Aviation Week | Aug 12 |
1991 | FAA's first year of drug tests nabs few | Flying | Oct |
1992 | Why pilot drug tests don't improve safety record | Flying | Dec |
1994 | Airlines tout low drug use, seek random test relief | Aviation Week | Apr 25 |
1994 | Why good cops go bad | Newsweek | Dec 19 |
1996 | The war on drugs wants you | Nations Business | Feb |
1997 | Paralysis by urinalysis | Sports Illustrated | May 26 |
1997 | Big Brother wants a close look at your hair | Fortune | Jun 23 |
1997 | Corporate America's Colombian connection: how "peso brokers" use U.S. manufacturers to wash the narcotics cartels' cash | Business Week | Dec 1 |
2001 | Young, successful and addicted to drugs: the new prescription-pill poppers | Glamour | Jun |
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