INTRODUCTION The proposed legislation on mandatory drug testing on all prisoners‚ probationers‚ and individuals who are under the influence of illegal drugs can be subject to attack on its constitutionality on grounds of its possible violation of a person’s right to privacy. As the Supreme Court held in the case of Social Justice Society versus Dangerous Drugs Board and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)‚ mandatory drug testing‚ to be constitutional‚ must adhere to the principles of “randomness”
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Drug testing within the workplace has become a common practice over the past three decades. While employers continue to focus on eliminating the risks that are associated with drug use from their workplace many other areas are just realizing that drug testing is important. One such area is through workforce development and training. Focusing solely on Indiana‚ drug testing was implemented for all new individuals who were enrolled in training provided by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 on July
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Every four out of five workplaces in the United States since 2006 now require you to take a pre-employment drug test . All employers should be able to give their employees a drug test randomly. But‚ the question is should employers be allowed to do random drug testing and that’s a big yes from eighty-four percent of all employers. There are many reasons why the employer should drug test at the workplace like to make the workplace a safer environment‚ also to maintain productivity and attendance
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Drug Testing in Professional and High School Athletics Many people do not see the severity of drug use in professional and High School athletics. Drug use in professional athletics is looked upon as somewhat of a serious problem‚ but also very discrete and low key. Every once in a while and individual might see a prominent figure in a certain sport being reprimanded for the use of an outlawed drug. However ‚ that athlete may just be one of the many who happened to get caught. Athletes today seem
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Mikayla White Mr. Nask Freshman English II 17‚ Feb. 2015 Should welfare recipients be drug tested in order to receive assistance? No‚ I do not think that welfare recipients should have to be drug tested in order to receive assistance. People that are for drug testing welfare recipients feel like it is not fair that they have to be drug tested in order to maintain a job but people receiving “free money” don’t have to be tested. I feel like they need to think beyond the fairness and think about more
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Should random drug-testing scheme be made compulsory for all school? This must be a question for many of the public. In the past few days‚ there were more and more news about teenagers taking drugs and were set to the emergency ward. There was also information showing that teenager drug addicts have increased 25 percent comparing to last year. It’s a horrible phenomenon and I do agree that it is essential to make every school involved into this drug-testing scheme for the following reasons:
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different things that can be said about the subject of drug testing welfare recipients. It can be said that it is unfair‚ and that may be true. It can also be said that it is justifiable‚ and this may also be true. In this paper I plan to prove that drug testing welfare recipients is unconstitutional‚ as well as costly to the state administering such test. Testing the recipients can be considered stereotypical and very demeaning. While making sure welfare funds are used properly‚ it is too costly and does
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27th 2010 Is drug testing an unwarranted invasion of employee privacy? Which is more important--getting drugs out of the workplace or protecting the privacy of the employee? What about other health-threatening activities‚ i.e. smoking outside of working hours‚ unprotected sex‚ etc. Should employers be able to question or test employees or potential employees about these activities? Both of these scenarios are tricky ones. On the one hand‚ any employer would want to get drugs out of the workplace
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M3 Original Assignment Are drug companies that test experimental drugs in foreign countries acting ethically? To answer this question‚ it is worth looking at why a drug company would experiment in a foreign country before even examining the negative impacts in doing so. Testing drugs internationally is done because it is cheaper and far easier to endanger trial patients in a foreign country. Now when exploring the reasons for the need to test at all‚ an act utilitarian may surmise that because
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English 1301 Analysis of ’No drug test‚ no welfare’ Whether or not a drug test is required by recipients of welfare has been questioned time and time again by many states. In the article "No drug test‚ no welfare"‚ Kimberly Yee expands upon on this question by explaining what her stand point is on the many advantages of drug testing for welfare. In this particular article‚ Ms. Yee does not sufficiently argue her position on the subject of welfare recipients taking drug test to receive benefits.
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