Archive for November, 2008

MyDD :: Good luck finding someone to pee in your cup.

November 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
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Accompanying the propose letter was an unwelcome take by surprise. When I pulled out the contents of the FedEx mailer and spotted sheets of paper that resembled checks printed from a dot-matrix printer, my heart skipped a batter. After brushing aside bemusement that anyone would still use a dot-matrix printer in this day and age, I wondered, “hmmmm, who sends the signing bonus check with the overture letter?”

After closer examination, though, nausea quickly muscled out my joy. Nobody told me about a piss test. I pulled the offer letter from the stack and, sure enough, it stated “per our conversation, you will necessity to undergo a pre-employment drug test as a estate of employment.”

This was going to have being much easier than I first thought.

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Questions arise over at-home drug test plan (phillyBurbs.com …

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Commissioner Diane Marseglia and Penndel District Judge Daniel Baranoski would liking to see the county take over a program the township developed to put up to sale parents inexpensive athome drug test kits.

Clean for a week, just got the job, waiting on drug test …

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Well primeval off obstacle me say that this website is extreamly awesome and it brings me hope for my future…

The backstory
Last year subsequent heavy smoking I failed a drug touchstone after 18 days. I did everything abuse for that test. I didn’t try to dilute, gave the testing site my first void of the day, and completed failed the standard. I would subsist pleased with to think that I have a bit more wisdom but would eros to hear what other members to this place think.

The current situation
I have been hired at a major drug chain while a pharmacy tech and will have a drug trial within the next two weeks (I’m waiting for the phone call). (Read the full post about ‘Clean for a week, just got the job, waiting on drug test …’…)

Drug Testing Guidelines Allow Broader Use Of Urine Specimen Testing

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The final revisions to the Guidelines expand the use of enhanced versions of these tests to cover a broader range of illicit substances including:

? 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ?Ecstasy,? or ?Adam?)
? 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA or ?Love Drug?)
? 3,4-methylenedioxyethylamphetamine (MDEA or ?Eve?)

The final revisions to the Guidelines take a more cautious approach than the 2004 proposals, however, regarding the proposed application of alternative specimens and techniques in Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs. These alternative methods include testing hair, oral fluid, sweat patch specimens and point of collection testing (instant screening kits) on this account that urine specimen testing.

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West Virginia Blue:: Kanawha County Commission flirting with drug …

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( - promoted by Clem Guttata)

As the stakes ramp up betwixt Kanawha County teachers and the County Board of Education with a lawsuit filed last week, Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper has announced that he would be prejudiced in expanding medicine testing to include County employees whom handle wealth or deal with the public (basically all of them.)

From the Daily Mail:

 

The Kanawha County Commission may join forces by the county school system in a legal broil and begin unsalable article testing more, if not most, of its employees. Its president, Kent Carper, wants the commission to expand its stray drug-testing address to include employees who treat money and records or deal by the public. (Read the full post about ‘West Virginia Blue:: Kanawha County Commission flirting with drug …’…)

Cogitamus: Simplisitc Drug Testing Kits Yield False Results and …

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For Nadine Artemis and Ron Obadia, August began with plans for a family intermission in Minnesota. The vacation ended with the two Canadian citizens being led through Toronto's airport in handcuffs, locked up and separated from their baby.

"We were dumbfounded," Artemis says. Police told them they could be facing years in prison for exporting narcotics, because 2.5 pounds of material found in their carry-on wallet tested positive for hashish. "All we knew was that we didn't have drugs."

They were telling the truth. They didn't have drugs.

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The Problems With Drug Screening

November 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
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Drug tests Can Differ

When it comes to workplace drug screens, you indeed have to put a lot of faith in science. Very few people know the lowdown about how the chemistry behind drug tests works, so you have to know if what you are getting is going to work and work well. After all, there is so much at stake. Not only is workplace safety an issue, but there are also possible insurance issues, workplace liability, and of course the security of knowing that you are operating a drug-free work fort.

Finding The Best Drug Screening Supplies

That is why, when our Board of Directors decided to invent put drugs into screening at the company I manage, we constrain so much effort into finding the best medicine testing supplies.

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ROUNDTABLE: GHS drug testing - Galesburg, IL - The Register-Mail

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Should Galesburg High School initiate a random drug testing program for students in participating in sports?

School board should proceed with caution
Instituting a drug testing program is easier to promote than to do. What kind of drug testing? Is it on account of controlled substances like marijuana or performance enhancing drugs like steroids? Will there be a test for highly rectified spirit? Will it be administered to every athlete, randomly or through probable cause?
Obviously, schools should do everything they can to preclude students from using drugs and policing athletes is a place they have significant purchase. But it’s much in addition complicated than a simple yes or nay answer.

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Teachers’ Union Anti-Drug Testing?

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As teachers’ union sues over drug testing, county wants to expand its testing program
by Ry Rivard
Source-Charleston Daily Mail

The Kanawha County Commission may cement forces with the county school system in a legal fray and begin drug testing more, if not most, of its employees.

Its president, Kent Carper, wants the commission to expand its random drug-testing policy to include employees who handle money and records or give with the public. This could include accountants, clerical workers and housing inspectors.

The commission already randomly tests “safety sensitive” master stroke of policy employees who operate vehicles and equipment or have firearms.

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Men guilty of selling device to foil drug tests | SafetyNewsAlert …

November 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
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The makers of the Whizzinator wish pleaded guilty in treaty court to two conspiracy counts, putting an official end to their product.

The company owned by George Wills and Robert Catalano, Puck Technology, sold the plan that helped men push drug tests.

The Whizzinator is a prosthetic penis that comes with a exciting. component and fake urine. It was sold from 2005 through this year.

Federal prosecutors claim the product helped people circumvent federal workplace drug-testing programs. They cited customer testimonials on the company’sitting Web site, including one in what one.

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