“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” (The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States)
This is part of the Bill of Rights, which protects all United States citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring a search warrant to be issued by a judge due to probable cause is a very controversial and sensitive topic of drug testing has challenged this amendment. According to Richard Glen Boire, in Drug Testing,
“The 2002 Supreme court decision to allow drug testing of all students who would like to participate in extracurricular activities is an attack on the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees a ‘reasonable exception of privacy. The ruling means that students can be treated like suspects without exhibiting suspicious behavior.” Drug testing is a breach of the constitutional rights.
This is part of the Bill of Rights, which protects all United States citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring a search warrant to be issued by a judge due to probable cause is a very controversial and sensitive topic of drug testing has challenged this amendment. According to Richard Glen Boire, in Drug Testing,
“The 2002 Supreme court decision to allow drug testing of all students who would like to participate in extracurricular activities is an attack on the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees a ‘reasonable exception of privacy. The ruling means that students can be treated like suspects without exhibiting suspicious behavior.” Drug testing is a breach of the constitutional rights.
To put in a simpler term, they’re invading people’s privacy, through excessive costs to the individual and various companies. There should be no reasonable exception of privacy according to that amendment above. The ‘government’, so to speak, is coming into schools and workplaces to pull out people to take urine samples to see if drugs are in their system. It’s a huge waste of money. According to Drug Testing, “The ACLU, it reports that in 1990 the federal government spent $11.8 million to test 29,000 employees only 153 whom tested positive – amounting to a cost of 77,000 to detect each positive drug user!”
Obviously, this is an outrageous use of government money. It’s a lot of money that we’re spending, just to find out if workers are on drugs. If drug testing continues on employees, it needs to be looked into a little harder and be spent on the people who are of harm in the workplace. Some can say that they absolutely love their job, and of those who do, I’m pretty sure it’s the older people whom have full time careers from attending a college and majoring in this career, so they are bound to love it and not worry about taking a drag to ease the boredom. Teenagers and young adults, who are in high school or just out of high school, are working to pay for college, work to get the money and typically don’t absolutely love their job.
Some drugs don’t even last the whole time you’re at work. Some drugs last a while longer and some just stay in your system for a while. It's the more important jobs that should be the jobs of choice where the workers are tested, such as, surgeons, doctors, bus or truck drivers, pilots, construction and home makers. Those are the ones who you trust your life with, which means those are the ones who should be tested more often than others. They have lives’ at stake while on their job, many lives in a day even.
Obviously, this is an outrageous use of government money. It’s a lot of money that we’re spending, just to find out if workers are on drugs. If drug testing continues on employees, it needs to be looked into a little harder and be spent on the people who are of harm in the workplace. Some can say that they absolutely love their job, and of those who do, I’m pretty sure it’s the older people whom have full time careers from attending a college and majoring in this career, so they are bound to love it and not worry about taking a drag to ease the boredom. Teenagers and young adults, who are in high school or just out of high school, are working to pay for college, work to get the money and typically don’t absolutely love their job.
Some drugs don’t even last the whole time you’re at work. Some drugs last a while longer and some just stay in your system for a while. It's the more important jobs that should be the jobs of choice where the workers are tested, such as, surgeons, doctors, bus or truck drivers, pilots, construction and home makers. Those are the ones who you trust your life with, which means those are the ones who should be tested more often than others. They have lives’ at stake while on their job, many lives in a day even.
Try being under the influence and flying a plane, or delivering a baby. I’m sure it’d be hard and all you’d want to do is laugh while up in the air and probably freak out while trying to deliver a baby.
In conclusion I feel drug testing is useless in some ways and simply put; a huge waste of money.
-I respect your opinion regarding drug testing. One factor to consider is that due to its widespread, illegal drugs are now more often than not sold in the streets. These make drugs more accessible to a wide demographic, young and old are no exception. Why don't you give drug testing a chance to make schools, businesses or organizations better? Drug testing is a huge factor in helping those who are addicted and prevent those who would want to even try.
ReplyDeleteTasha Boone @ Your Drug Testing