Originally Posted by 4th and Long

We no longer sell $5.00 aspirin. The vast majority of our oral meds are priced at roughy 10 cents a piece, regardless of what we pay for them, except Tylenol, which we give away for free at my hospital. They rape you on room and bed charges instead. :D

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

I agree, however, anybody that is not union can be fired for cause drugs or not.

Originally Posted by 4th and Long

That is horribly incorrect. Drugs bind to certain parts of your body, i.e. your hair follicles, and until that follicle falls out, you have traces of the drug "on you" as opposed to "in you."

Originally Posted by alanm

How bout if a patient just stays at the Holiday Inn nearby and has the Dr. come visit. I bet these days if a Dr. made house calls and advertised such he'd be flooded with patients. :hmmm:

Originally Posted by 4th and Long

I can also tell you that the cocaine I purchase is top grade. No one on the street has better snow white than I can buy.

Originally Posted by KCChiefsMan

I worked at Sears once about 4-5 years ago. I had to go take a drug test right after they hired me and that was it

Originally Posted by ENDelt260

Not only have I been tested, I've failed.

I did a fair amount of research on the subject back in college as I was partying a fair amount.

First, they don't actually test for the drug. They test for the metabolites... the substances produced when your body processes the drug. In the case of marijuana these are fat soluble, so they'll stick around longer than water soluble substances (like those produced by coke or meth). Of course, it's dependent on your body fat. I knew a girl in college that could be clean for a piss test within a few days of smoking due to her extremely low body fat. This knowledge in mind, my last semester of college I quit smoking pot. My consumption of cocaine, LSD, and psylocibin mushrooms, however, increased. As has been mentioned you can be clean for a piss test w/in a day or two of doing coke. Shrooms and acid have similar turnaround times and the added benefit of not being tested for as part of the majority of standard tests. I think I'd rather have an occassional pot smoker working for me than a regular user of acid, coke, and shrooms... but, hey.

IIRC, to be clean for a hair test, you'd have to not smoke pot for 2-3 months. I forget the timeframe for coke, it may have been similar, but the test was designed for coke and is most sensitive to it. When I was graduating college a majority of employers were just doing piss tests. Anheuser Busch does hair tests, though, so I know plenty of folks who've been hair tested.

My favorite research site back in the day was erowid.org. They've got everything from personal experience stories to links to documents on legitimate sites (DEA, FDA, etc). It's a nice spot to get a look at drug culture from a number of angles.

Originally Posted by Rain Man

No. Apparently people don't mind hiring drugged-up market researchers.

Originally Posted by nm_dbf

Contractors, always have to be ready for any new work.
Drug testing is a really has been for years now.

Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois

I think the hair folicle test will eventually replace the urine test. Urine tests are easier to tamper with, either through dilution, or substitution, or masking. And no one really likes to work with urine, if there is another way.

Originally Posted by Brock

Suppose the guy has no hair. What will they do then?

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

I'd guess they would use a UA. It sure looks like the hair test would be more expensive than a UA since it has to be processed at a lab.

Originally Posted by Brock

It is more expensive, but I think that is just because UA is the standard.

Thing is, the hair test will not show drug use in the days and weeks before the test. If they cut off a half inch of your hair, that's going to give them a snapshot of your drug use a month or longer ago. I think that is why UAs are prevalant and will probably continue to be so.