Gov't Workers May Face Drug Test Changes

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20040406/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/drug_testing

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WASHINGTON - The hair, saliva and sweat of federal workers could be tested for drug use under a new government policy proposed Tuesday that eventually will set a standard for private companies.

The planned changes, long sought by the testing industry, reflect government efforts to be more precise in its drug screening and to bypass attempts to cheat on urine-based tests. The testing of hair, saliva and sweat will not be required, but would be available as an option to government agencies that screen workers and job applicants.

"We believe that drug testing provides a powerful deterrent to the destructive and dangerous conditions drug use creates," said Charles Curie, administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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About 400,000 federal workers, such as those who have security clearances, carry firearms, are involved in national security or who are presidential appointees, are tested when they apply for jobs. Some are subject to random drug testing during their employment. Other federal employees are tested only if they show signs of drug use or are involved in a work-related accident, the agency said.

Chimpy's hair won't get tested. What Fascist crap!

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we should be conducting thorough searches of these people's homes. Who knows what they're doing that might be illegal.

YEARRRGGHHH!!!! God, that makes me mad. Time to

All in good time, all in good time.

MzPip
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Like in the Beavis and Butthead movie. "Did I just score?".

"We believe that drug testing provides a powerful deterrent to the destructive and dangerous conditions drug use creates," said Charles Curie....

translation: "We want everyone to live a miserable life of repressed desires like us religious freaks do."

These idiots are the epitome of evil.

due to fascism and the police state ... I'd rather all the resources, including human ones, spent on this were focusing on other things ...

the drug industry in all the multi-level facets of private business and government in which it creeps will be a tough one to undo ... just like getting the oil monkey off our backs ...

I'm sure some could argue the merits ... but, in the final analysis, it divides us, and destroys what our Founders fought and died for ...

too many people know too much about fellow-citizens as it is

Sad

No, then they would be forced to provide medical care for all the problems it creates.

And who checks up on the lab techs? Who protects the workers from supervisors who might be tempted to 'adjust' test results so they can get rid of employees who take their duties to the nation seriously and won't be partisan doormats?

Any bets as to how long after this only right wing xtian fundies will be holding positions in the federal work force?

No! Wait...

I'm so confused.

The neocons use "smaller government" talking points to eliminate social programs. In every other way they plan to increase government.