When I first began to cover drug testing for a little alternative newsweekly twenty years ago, the tests were laughably flawed. Fifty percent false positives
What Happened to Georgia Southern’s Star Quarterback Was A Real Shit Show… I. When Georgia Southern starting quarterback Shai Werts was
If time is short (as in “I have a drug test the day after tomorrow”), or if you are a somewhat heavyset daily weed smoker
When I first started writing critically about drug testing in 2005 it was like shooting fish in a barrel. During the second Bush Administration
The drug test companies maintain that the reliability of their tests has improved dramatically over the last decade, but I’m not sure I believe that.
So, you have to take a drug test. Well, you’re not alone. Up to 50 million drug tests are performed in the United States every
Monday the 1st My buddy Liebowitz had to take a drug test and he’s freaking out. He posted his panic on Facebook. “So, I
The U.S. Supreme Court approves an major expansion of suspicionless student drug testing mandating drug testing for all students who wish to participate in any
Psychemedics has over 2,000 corporate customers nationwide, numerous police departments, including five of the country’s largest, five Federal Reserve Banks, hospitals and parole departments, as
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, making this the first time legislation that authorizes federal funds that may be used for school drug testing
According to US News & World Report 20 to 25 million Americans are drug-tested annually in the United States. Although 8% of tests that come
DATIA surveyed its members to determine the extent of increased student drug testing by schools across the nation in the wake of the Supreme Court’s
The U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved legislation encouraging states to drug test all teenage driver’s license applicants. The provision, included in H.R. 4550, further recommends that
It is estimated that the United States spends $1 billion annually to drug test about 20 million federal workers
The Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1998 provides federal funds to small businesses that want to impose drug testing on their employees.
Congress passes the Drug Free Workplace Act requiring companies awarded federal contracts to institute drug testing as a condition of contract.
Psychemedics introduced the PDT-90® personal drug testing service for parents who wanted to use hair-testing technology to test their children for drug use.
DATIA, The Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association, is founded with it stated mission to work closely with and influence key policy makers in Federal
In a notable irony, Anheuser Busch, makers of Budweiser beer, [Miller beer], and many other brands, maintains a policy of drug-testing in the workplace. Urinalysis
A congressional committee estimated that the cost of each positive in government testing was $77,000 because the positive rate was only 0.5%.
The U.S. Supreme Courts, citing a drug crisis that has reached “epidemic proportions”, rules in favor of a Veronia, Washington School District law mandating mass
Realizing that an impairment-free standard must be maintained for certain professions involving public safety, the American Civil Liberties Union suggests an alternative to urinalysis and
Congress requires random drug testing for any U.S. Worker in safety sensitive positions
Blockbuster pays Pychemedics $790,000 for hair testing services.
The Society of Forensic Toxicology [SOFT] conference produces a “consensus statement” which did not endorse the stand-alone use of hair analysis and concludes that hair
In a landmark case, Judge Jack Weinstein, who participated in the SOFT conference earlier that year delared in U.S. v. Medina (1990) 749 F.Supp.59 (E.D
Corporate drug testing has burgeoned. Ninety-eight percent of the Fortune 200 companies have implemented some form of drug testing. However, a positive drug test still
Pharmaceutical giant Hoffman-la Roche launches a nationwide program called “Corporate Initiatives for a Drug-Free Workplace” to motivate corporate leaders to implement practical drug abuse policies
The United States Supreme Court, citing the administrative search exception, finds constitutional a Custom Service program requiring all Custom Service employees seeking promotions to certain
Blockbuster Entertainment mandates pre-employment hair testing for all job applicants in their stores nationwide. Blockbuster maintains has of 3000 stores and nearly 15000 employees.
Pychemedics begins to market hair testing commercially. Pychemedics Board of Directors includes hair-testing pioneer Werner Baumgartner [Chairman, owing 7.2 % of stock in the company]
The United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, citing the administrative search exception, finds urine testing of nuclear power plant employees to be constitutional [Rushton
President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12564 requiring federal agencies to institute urine testing programs for the purpose of creating ‘drug-free federal workplaces.’
The United State’s Third Circuit Court of Appeals, citing the administrative search exception, approved, for the first time, mass urinalysis procedures in the public workplace.
Although the Fourth Amendment protects the privacy rights of citizens from government intrusion, the private sector has traditionally had much less restriction. By 1985 urine-testing
Only 3% of the Fortune 200 companies are testing job applicants or employees.
Werner Baumgartner pioneers a hair-testing technique to test for the presence of drugs. Whereas urinalysis can detect substances injested inj the last seventy-hours [except marijuana,
The U.S. Supreme Court declared constitutional an “administrative search exception” to the Fourth Amendment [Committee for GI Rights v. Callaway 518 F. 2D 466, 474
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOukOqdudHk Acting on recommendations from the White House, the Pentagon prepares to random drug test soldiers returning from Vietnam. Since drug use is an infraction
Washington, D.C. Department of Corrections tests the urine of 129 District prisoners in an effort to prove a causal relationship between crime and drugs. Since
Seeking election to the Presidency, candidate Richard Nixon declares law-and-order the number one goal of his proposed administration with special emphasis on a War on
“The Right of the People to Be Secure in Their Persons, Houses, Papers and Effects Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, Shall Not be Violated; And
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