Workplace urine screening for drug abuse.

Workplace urine screening for drug abuse.

Ethical aspects of workplace urine screening for drug abuse.

OBJECTIVE To review the ethical and legal implications of the involvement of medical practitioners in workplace screening for drug misuse. CONCLUSIONS Workplace screening for drugs of abuse raises many ethical issues. If screening is considered as being part of medical practice with the involvement of occupational health physicians, as suggested by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, then t...

Workplace drug abuse policy.

An estimated 70 percent of illicit drug users are in the workforce. This paper studies workplace policies relating to drug abuse treatment and testing in a labor market with asymmetric information about worker proclivities to abuse drugs and to incur costs of workplace accidents. Drug abuse has a moral hazard component related to worker choice of treatment or other deterrent activities, and a s...

Workplace drug abuse policy: A comment

McGuire and Ruhm (1993) develop an interesting and policy-relevant model of workplace drug abuse policy. They examine workers’ choice to undergo treatment (rehabilitation) for substance abuse and firms’ choice of drug-testing policies, concluding that ‘labor market incentives will generally lead to too little treatment and too much testing’. Drug addicts are assumed to have a ‘high’ probability...

Urine drug screening: practical guide for clinicians.

Drug testing, commonly used in health care, workplace, and criminal settings, has become widespread during the past decade. Urine drug screens have been the most common method for analysis because of ease of sampling. The simplicity of use and access to rapid results have increased demand for and use of immunoassays; however, these assays are not perfect. False-positive results of immunoassays ...