Are Drug Tests by Employers Against the United States Constitution?.
What I know is that the issue of random drug tests is widely debated and known because of the prevalence of drug testing in the workplace. Most everyone knows someone who has been tested for their job or they themselves have been tested in the past. Most jobs have a drug policy for their employees. The policies by employers include different actions to take to deter employee drug use. Most policy's details are a little different but their goal is the same and that is, like I stated before, to deter employee drug use. My experience with drug testing is in the second person. I know people who have been tested for their jobs but I have never been tested myself. Also, my employer recently implemented a drug policy. .
What I want to know.
What I want to know is if random drug tests are against the United States constitution and how big a problem drug use on the job really is. I would also like to know what the legalities of drug testing are. I would like to look up court cases and look at current literature on drug testing. I would also like to interview my boss and get his opinion on drug testing and get the details on my employer's drug policy. After I research the issue and conduct the interview I am going to conduct a small survey of 20 college students where they answer 3 questions on their awareness and opinion of drug tests by employers.
I began my search by looking for periodicals about drug testing. I found many periodicals over the internet and I found some magazines in the UMD library that stated different stances to the issue These were not useful for my research at this time. I am still in the beginning stages of my research and I need to know some basic knowledge to help me better understand the issue of drug testing. I then turned to one of the terminals and looked up drug testing in the search engine.