Should drug testing be enforced for employees? Drug testing is a way for employers to check if employees or people applying for the job are taking drugs. Drug testing analysis’s any biological specimen, it includes blood, hair, urine, or any other bodily fluids to learn if drugs are present or not. Major applications of drug testing include detection of the presence of performance enhancing steroids in sport, employers screening for drugs banned by law such as cannabis, cocaine and heroin and police officers testing for the presence and concentration of alcohol ethanol in the -blood commonly referred to as BAC blood alcohol content.(alcoholism as a social problem) BAC tests are typically administered with a breathalyzer while urinalysis is
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Drugs change behavior and limit the ability to efficiently complete tasks. Also some evidence shows that drug dependant employees use more sick day leaves and medical benefits than other employees. This is bad for the employer in multiple ways the way the part of the drug testing is really useful for owners because they can get in trouble if they let employees in without checking if they are clean or not, the owners can get fined worth a lot of money and it's totally not worth it. In my opinion, I think they should definitely be tested and the government should make sure it becomes a law and every business owner should follow the rules if they don’t they will be fined. If the employee does drugs than the owner will order them to stop to get the job and tell them to apply for the job again in six months. Then they will do another drug test. Once you take any substance of drugs, it is in your system for 3 through 6 months and even longer if you are a heavy user. (Reham) For example, the hair follicle test can detect a person’s drug use in 90 days. A hair screen is an examination where you use a small sample of a person’s hair and it measures the drug molecules in it after the drug is being processed in a person’s …show more content…
In 87% of cases the breathalyzer is always correct to detect drug level in the person's body. Breathalyzer is a machine which is used to detect the drug or alcohol intoxicated by a driver's. “In their latest paper, published in Elsevier’s Journal of Chromatography B, Professor Olof Beck and his team have successfully developed the first fully validated and robust screening method suitable for the routine measurement of drugs of abuse in exhaled breath, with a simple procedure for specimen collection sample preparation. This was followed by a highly sensitive analytical technique known as LC-MS (Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry). The drugs of abuse identified include: amphetamines, methamphetamines, cannabis, cocaine and heroin.” Technologies are improving nowadays which is helping the people to discover new ways to identify drug abuse. To get accurate readings on a breath-testing device the individual must blow for approximately 6 seconds and need to contain roughly 1.1 to 1.5 liters of breath.
Drugs change behavior and limit the ability to efficiently complete tasks. Also some evidence shows that drug dependant employees use more sick day leaves and medical benefits than other employees. This is bad for the employer in multiple ways the way the part of the drug testing is really useful for owners because they can get in trouble if they let employees in without checking if they are clean or not, the owners can get fined worth a lot of money and it's totally not worth it. In my opinion, I think they should definitely be tested and the government should make sure it becomes a law and every business owner should follow the rules if they don’t they will be fined. If the employee does drugs than the owner will order them to stop to get the job and tell them to apply for the job again in six months. Then they will do another drug test. Once you take any substance of drugs, it is in your system for 3 through 6 months and even longer if you are a heavy user. (Reham) For example, the hair follicle test can detect a person’s drug use in 90 days. A hair screen is an examination where you use a small sample of a person’s hair and it measures the drug molecules in it after the drug is being processed in a person’s …show more content…
In 87% of cases the breathalyzer is always correct to detect drug level in the person's body. Breathalyzer is a machine which is used to detect the drug or alcohol intoxicated by a driver's. “In their latest paper, published in Elsevier’s Journal of Chromatography B, Professor Olof Beck and his team have successfully developed the first fully validated and robust screening method suitable for the routine measurement of drugs of abuse in exhaled breath, with a simple procedure for specimen collection sample preparation. This was followed by a highly sensitive analytical technique known as LC-MS (Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry). The drugs of abuse identified include: amphetamines, methamphetamines, cannabis, cocaine and heroin.” Technologies are improving nowadays which is helping the people to discover new ways to identify drug abuse. To get accurate readings on a breath-testing device the individual must blow for approximately 6 seconds and need to contain roughly 1.1 to 1.5 liters of breath.