high while making this statement. First off, alcohol is not illegal, but more importantly, just because there may be a problem or loophole in one aspect of a program or policy, does this mean we should add another problem, drugs, into the equation. This is comparative to a little kid saying, “He gets to do it, why can’t I”? Another one of the more commonly used arguments by opponents of drug testing is that many times a test can give false results. While this is true, for the initial testing at least, if anyone is found to have tested positive for drugs, a second analysis is done to give results of almost 100% accuracy. And even then, if the results are still found to be positive, a medical review officer will call you to determine whether there were any unusual circumstances, such as eating poppy seeds at some time prior to the test date, which have at times created a false positive. From there, the medical reviewer will make a final determination before contacting the employer with any results. Also, it is recognized that people slip up and make mistakes in their life. It is for this reason that the Chamber of Commerce asks employers to give anyone who tests positive a second chance in addition to offering rehabilitation (Allison 2). And, for the most part, companies do this. Case in point, my former employer Smith’s did this for a store manager who tested positive for cocaine. She maintained that it was her first time using and that she had never planned on doing it again. For this reason, they suspended her with pay for a month and required that she go through a substance abuse program. She returned, and as far as I know, never came up positive for drugs again. The whole point of drug testing is not to seclude people from society or to say that they are bad people. All it says is that employers who drug-test want and demand their employees be free of drugs. It is not in place to judge, but in...
