It’s amusing to think and know that there has actually been no research concluding that drug testing in the workplace is actually a valid method. The research that supported drug testing as good policy had huge problems in their ‘research methods’. For example, the actual relationship between drug users and the negative resulting outcomes was very small. And the ‘evidence’ that proved these points was varied and mixed. Variables that should have been included in the research were left out and because of this the ‘conclusions’ were highly skewed. One of the biggest faults of the research was that they only tested one example of a workplace with each study. They didn’t take a sampling from multiple businesses but concentrated in one. Meaning the results obtained from a study on workplace drug use at the Post Office may be very misleading as an example for what may happen at a warehouse, or office, or retail store. Basically more studies need to be done, that take a sampling of many different workers, from many different workplaces, and do also take into account the variables, not just environment, age, race, and sex.

The overall conclusion that can be drawn from this knowledge is that not only is there far more propaganda being shoved down the throats of the American company, but that because the government started the policies and brought forth the research to support their theories and practices that your boss, the CEO of the company you want to be hired with, is unaware that this practice of drug testing his employees is outmoded and not supported.