The sad truth that is being kept from the public is that the very strongly held to belief that the use of drugs by employees would in fact reduce productivity and increase accidents at the workplace is all unsupported. It is propaganda that has led to these beliefs, but despite that they are beliefs that many of the CEO’s and upper management of the work-force believe to be true. They hold these values as the basis for the current drug testing trends in America. It is almost humorous when the research is done and you realize that almost all the evidence that points to these moral standards are anecdotal stories. No science, no studies, and even sadder than that was the fact that the few studies that had been done in a scientific setting could not be duplicated, and upon inspection would quickly fall apart as they had not taken the proper measures or steps to insure that any and all results would be recognized as fact.

Studies have been conducted for many years looking at the correlation between drug use in or around the workplace or by employees when they are not working to productivity and accidents within the workplace. A committee was put together in 1991 to study this and only this. The Committee on Drug Use in the Workplace (CDUW). The purpose wasn’t just to study the correlation between the two, but to also study drug prevention and treatment programs that were set up and available to employees. The Committee released their findings in 1994 and despite all their efforts, there was not strong support for the continuation of drug testing programs.