go ahead
uh have you ever been tested for a new job or anything
um no i haven't but in my job i'm a nurse and we are allowed to be i mean you know this is the rules that they can do this
anytime uh i don't know of anyone who ever has been picked out
and been tested
so it's just sort of um they can if they
they can if they choose to right
yeah oh okay
have you well what have you had any experience with it at all
um not really but i've always worked on a university level but a lot of my friends had to be tested before they got summer jobs and stuff
uh-huh
and what do you think about that
um i don't
i don't think they're very accurate because i mean i know their lifestyles changed prior prior to the drug test and i know they changed afterwards
right right see i know of that too
and i also know that things like antihistamines Sudafed things like that can really throw it off and you cannot get a job
because of it and they may not tell you the reason why
yeah i i had a friend
it didn't cause her any problems with her job but it came back that she tested positive for using a hallucinogen
uh-huh
but what it was was she had been using she had been um in the jungle and it was some Malaria medication and she tested positive for that
see and so it really is a dangerous thing that way because i know of somebody that tested for an airline and didn't get the job and
they weren't told why
but a lot of people say the reason why after you take a physical will be because of the drug testing
or they would tell you or this person never use any drugs
see i always i thought they got you got called back if you tested positive for more test
but
um you should because you should be given another chance or at least
able to justify it or something i have real mixed feelings about it i don't know
how uh do you know how wrong they are are they i mean is there a margin of error
the accuracy i don't know i don't know but i know there are a lot of things that can influence them and i think that a person deserves
a second chance with it or something because most things will stay in your system for a long time
yeah
and if you could show that i i interviewed for a job recently and i was taking Entex
uh-huh
and my doctor gave me a prescription for it and he said this way if it were to make the drug test positive you have
proof that your doctor ordered this for you you know and it didn't come up that i needed to do it but
if this could happen to anybody and if they would just say oh this person's drug test is positive we won't hire them
yeah
you know then you could lose out on a job when really you didn't do anything
yeah and i i'm not so sure they're that needed i mean
so i don't know
yeah i'm not sure either the only way i can see it is that if they really suspect a person of using it
then they have the right to go ahead and prove it because they say they can spot check
yeah if you're using it
while at a job i can see a problem but the occasional person then it's almost like it's almost an infringement of your privacy
yeah
well it sort of is and this is it this i'm not real sure how i feel about it because i can see it
from two ways you know as a health professional i wouldn't want somebody take care of me that was using drugs
yeah
you know so as a patient i feel well yeah we probably should be protected but on the other hand
there's a lot of things
i should be protected from it they don't test my patients for too so you know i guess you sort of you have to have trust some place along the way
yeah
you can't go around testing everybody for everything
yeah
so i don't know and i i think it could be used to hassle somebody if someone was out to get you
i think that a company or a boss could use this you know they could keep on doing this to you or something i guess i can see where it could become a problem
and it it's like it seems like now they have trests i guess they can test your hair and they can find out if you use drugs up to several years ago
really
oh wow
but maybe you shouldn't be held responsible for something you did several years ago
so
i know
that's the other thing i mean a lot of a lot of people as kids or you know young people get into some things that
they get out of later on and i don't think they should really have to pay for that forever
yeah there's a lot of things you do as a kid that you wouldn't do as an adult but
so
yeah
you can't say it was wrong at the time
i think that's true yeah
yeah so that probably wouldn't be too good either
