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: urinalysis test at her company, then known as Tech Tool Grinding &
: Supply Inc.
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: It required disrobing, donning a hospital gown, and submitting to
: bodily inspection by a medical staff person.
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: But the highest court in the state said that the testing was legitimate.
: Source: Folmsbee v.Tech Tool Grinding & Supply Inc., 417 Mass. 338, 630
: N.E. 2d 586 (1994).
It is totally urinating what the politicians and
courts have allowed in the name of the Drug War.
: Privacy Journal's War Stories, By Attorney Robert Ellis Smith
:
: Burlingame, CA, 1990: A flight attendant suffered medical complications
: because of Federal requirements that compel drug-monitors to have
: employees drink water until they can provide a urine sample. The 40-year-
: old woman was unable to urinate in a random drug test. She drank three
: quarts of water and even vomited some of it but could not urinate in the
: noisy crowded test site. She became ill at home and a doctor diagnosed
: her condition as "water intoxication." The lack of privacy inhibits
: 25 percent of people from urinating, surveys show [JAMA 1/2/91].
Drug testing doesn't even work. Could there be a
more important use for it than public safety?
It made no difference to the drunk and sleepy subway motorman in the
spectacular underground smash-up at the Union Square Station in NYC.
Even if he had a drug test before his shift, he still would have
had the accident.