A big fear about companies including prescription drugs in their drug testing policies is not one you would expect. It is stereotypes that surround this fear. When you train someone to look for signs of drug use by an employee, what is it that you are training them to see? Most of the things you will train them to look for and try to spot will be the stereotypical signs of drug use that do not necessarily actually indicate a drug user. A person who is overly sleepy or tired at work, should we immediately assume they are using drugs, or should we just think they maybe did not get enough sleep last night? Beyond that there are certain prejudices surrounding certain prescription medications and the people who use them. Opening the door for a company to withdraw an employment offer to someone based solely on this is opening the door for a kind of segregation that is not likely to be good for business in any way.

Who is in the wrong though, employees who because of their drug use are causing accidents and the company who simple want to protect themselves? Or is it the company who is being unlawfully discriminatory and simply want to get a break on their insurance premiums and even want to prevent employees from getting a job to help save them thousands of dollars in the long run on the insurance for those employees alone? We may not be able to answer that question at all.