okay i um
to let you know what i feel about drug testing uh i have my qualms about having the government or anyone else for that matter
testing randomly everybody across the board for various drugs however i am not against
right
testing those people who are in critical uh jobs for example airline pilots subway drivers you know people who are responsible for other people's safety
right
for uh for uh uh a larger number than just their own personal safety
correct i just think that it's
yeah
uh unnecessary and really the medical testing facilities that are available now have been shown to have problems in the past as far as reliability is concerned
huh
and uh we have had situations here where people were accused of um
uh utilizing drugs and uh it turned out they were on some other medication which was giving false positives
right
right and the same goes with uh you can eat poppy bagels poppy seeds
um-hum
and they'll come up as a as a positive for drugs as well
which is i you know i'd i'd just heard that uh just recently and i thought that was interesting
uh
uh do you more or less follow on the same lines as i do or
yeah i i do i um i have a little problem with somebody testing uh for drugs just in general as an invasion of privacy
uh but i do agree with you or regarding people that deal uh with groups of other people that their lives should be they should feel a little more safe and there should be more of a safeguard
you know air traffic controllers airline pilots uh anybody that deal with the public in a uh
i don't know what uh a fashion that their lives are in their in in their hands
yeah i i know that they were up here in New York um
uh i've noticed what they have been trying to do the governor here isn't thrilled with the idea and we have uh
uh-huh
various government officials here who basically don't feel that is a good idea for along the same lines but they're continuously clashing with the federal government which because of it's antidrug war
right
um figures well since we're not really accomplishing much of anything internationally let's make big headlines by going out and being for mandatory drug testing and
within the community
yeah and and that way we'll we'll nail those nine to five worker users without really solving the problem
of trying to really do something and through education and that
yeah
yeah they the federal government seems to be a lot more aggressive about this um
that's
than uh anything else it's interesting that you find out with all these little scandals going on now such as in the house with the post office cocaine scandal
right yep
you know all that um
well did you hear about the uh what was happening in the Boston area
uh for i guess for about the past five they've been testing babies for AIDS
uh
oh really
but not releasing the information
yeah i
they were just testing to find out how prevalent it is uh in what demographic and segments of the population
but they weren't telling anybody if they did it when when the results came up positive or negative they weren't telling anybody
hum well their sure they were probably afraid of being sued
well i'm sure and also bringing light to the fact that they weren't getting parental permission for it
yeah
they were just doing this test
yeah it's one of these slippery slope issues where once you start by allowing this kind of randomized drug testing it's the same thing with the lie detectors
yep
and uh the physiological test tests that go on um really i think you know we are seeing more and more of privacy taken away
um courtesy of the federal government as time goes on because of the almighty rights of the employer to know every possible thing about their employees
yep
and uh at times it's hypocritical as well because those in positions of leadership that want these things certainly don't want them applied to themselves
right
exactly they want to they want to be just above in that regard
uh
yeah i i i don't know how much you've had experience as far as in the newspapers coming across people who have gotten into trouble with the drug stuff here in in Rochester Rochester
no
in western New York there hasn't been a terrible lot but we of course hear about the subway drivers in New York City
yep
who slammed into someone and of course you know the airline pilots are rumored you know there are already rumors of rampant alcoholism now cocaine usage
uh well there's always there's a standard joke about the Northwestern pilots
oh yeah wasn't that that thing in Minneapolis or something when they were supposedly smashed out of their minds and then flew or they had their light
yeah
