Drug testing can be compromised through employee subversion, which can take many forms, and through specimen degradation, inadequate on-site testing, and the increased use of the drugs that target very specific substances. Most of us think that drug use is really not close to us and certainly not with the co-workers that we learn to depend on in the everyday work environment. It seems that drug use is associated with the lower-class citizens of the world, but really it can affect anyone. Those figures are according to a recent survey published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1991. Just In Time notes that employees at General Mills Supplies of New Orleans are tested regularly and given assistance if needed.
Harsh discipline results from a positive test.
Not only is drug use a problem in the workplace, but is also a big problem for our society in relation to crime. Drug abuse is growing larger in everyone's town. Three in four people who are arrested fro any crime test positive for illegal drugs. More than one-third feel that the drug epidemic is too complex to be addressed as either a public health or criminal justice problem. The problem will not just go away either.