Employment Drug Tests
Drug testing is usually performed for purposes of employment, and is also used in social work and the court system to ensure that an individual is responding to drug rehabilitation. An employer may also choose to have his present employees routinely screened for drug use. This has become a controversial procedure, raising questions of privacy rights, but has become extremely widespread in recent years. A less contentious issue is that of post-accident testing, performed to ensure that an individual sustaining a workplace injury was not operating under the influence of drugs at the time the injury was sustained.