AP: Gov't to Overhaul Employee Drug Tests

[frank frankly]

The Machine is really settling in.

As the countdown to prison planet marches on.

Will they test Congress and the White House, too?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20040115/ap_on_re_us/drug_testing_4

AP: Gov't to Overhaul Employee Drug Tests

By ADAM GELLER, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK - The federal government is planning to overhaul its employee drug testing program to include scrutiny of workers' hair, saliva and sweat, a shift that could spur more businesses to revise screening for millions of their own workers.

The planned changes, long awaited by the testing industry, reflect government efforts to be more precise in its drug screening and to outmaneuver a small but growing subset of workers who try to cheat on urine-based tests.

Some businesses have already adopted alternative testing, despite criticism by privacy advocates. But others have held back, partly awaiting government standards.

[frank frankly]

1. This is almost as soothing as the national no-seatbelt is a crime thingee

where are the libertarians?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

2. oh well

i always thought that wanting to work for the government was a good sign of prolonged drug abuse anyway.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

3. Stool samples may be next.

This is just speculation on my part, but what is to stop employers from requiring stool samples or blood draws? What is to stop the GOV'T from requiring employers to conduct these intrusions? What will be next?