Random drug testing
Let's see, $2,000 to $3,000 a year for random drug testing, and the Highland district has had one positive test in nine years....that's $18,000 to $27,000 to kick one kid out of marching band or whatever. In my mind that's a pretty poor investment, especially considering the false positive rate of those testing firms.
posted by Allthenewsthatfits at 9:48 AM
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What is the false positive rate of those firms?
Well, this is an old quote from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
"Transportation Secretary Jim Burnley acknowledges that one in 10 drug tests initially results in a false positive. I can only hope that whoever processes those tests does not make a mistake."
I don't know whether that 1/10 figure is correct nowadays.
That's from 1988. Technology has come a long way. Palmyra has had none.
Yeah, if somebody has some updated statistics I'd appreciate knowing them.
I would have gotten them before I made the insinuation that the false positive rate is high. It might be, you stated it as fact.
If were in School District #172, you would get a do over.
Well, a 1991 article in Risk: Health, Safety, and Environment entitled "Predictive Probabilities In Employee Drug-Testing" states, "[M]ore than one out of every four applicants testing positive truly will be drug free," so there's a somewhat newer statistic for you, dear Anonymous. The article concludes that "The clearest conclusion of this analysis is that allegedly-accurate tests for abused drugs may sometimes be inaccurate to a disturbingly high degree."
Risk is published by the Franklin Pierce Law Center, a law school in Concord, N.H.
When both screening and confirmatory tests are conducted, the combined tests themselves become virtually 100% dependable.
At least where I have been, there are two samples submitted. This is 2007. If a sample provider does not trust the test company he can go to Blessing and get his own screening done. Been a while since I advised anyone to do that but it cost app. $40. Small price to pay if it means saving your job.
What's your source please?
The source question was for anon. 2:13. I guess my discomfort is with the "guilty until proven innocent" mentality of the whole thing. These "sample providers" are high school kids.
http://www.fsrdrugtest.com/faq.htm
Question 7
Thanks. That is, of course, a commercial provider of drug tests, so I will take its testimony on that footing.
There's more just look around a little. Try here, also known to be not 100% accurate, but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_test
..also according to the Whig article the parents must give permission.
I 100% disagree with rendom drug tests .
429 why?
Sorry that was me that disagreed 100% with random tests .......
I think I explain in the latest post !
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