do you self-medicate?

[SovaNu]

yeah i know.

but if people managed to work together they would have the power. instead everyone's a scared individual isolated while belonging to the herd and accepting its ideals.

[Parts]

They can't smoke at home? That's fucked up.

As Dunc said, I can understand drug controls in places where your work affects the safety of others, but that's about it.

They will say that an employee on drugs endangers everyone regardless of their duties
In the states the big push for the testing is from the insurance companies it helps them not pay off when something happens

[duncvis]

fascistic bollocks. i say they pay for your labour, they dont own your leisure time. they don't own you.

[odeon]

They will say that an employee on drugs endangers everyone regardless of their duties

Yes, a librarian on amphetamine is an obvious menace, a danger to the planet.

[Tesla]

I've decided to start growing my own opium. 

http://www.erowid.org/plants/poppy/poppy.shtml

[Parts]

They will say that an employee on drugs endangers everyone regardless of their duties

Yes, a librarian on amphetamine is an obvious menace, a danger to the planet.

Well if the librarian is high he might not call Homeland Insecurity on you when you take out subversive books 

[odeon]

They will say that an employee on drugs endangers everyone regardless of their duties

Yes, a librarian on amphetamine is an obvious menace, a danger to the planet.

Well if the librarian is high he might not call Homeland Insecurity on you when you take out subversive books 

[DirtDawg]

BTW, I voted as a substance abuser. I will do anything that promises to make me "feel good."  I'm a doper, but I've never been busted, never overdone it to the point of external attention and never ended up in the hospital, except for my experiments with Melatonin.

I have had to make a few choices lately to stay "clean,"  due to the policies at work. Otherwise, I would probably smoke a little dope to get to sleep, each night. It would really help me get to sleep, but I would lose my job, when I get caught.



</confessional>

that annoys the shit out of me. unless you work in a role which directly affects the safety of others, e.g. air traffic controller, *insert vehicle here* driver, why the fuck is it an employer's business what you choose to partake of outside working hours (providing of course you don't show up for work off your chops)? luckily drug testing employees is much less common on this side of the pond. invasion of fucking liberties.

I know.

It's the times. I am doing the best I can.

[Alex179]

I self-medicate obviously.    I am about to go do some more self-medicating in a minute.   

[Peter]

BTW, I voted as a substance abuser. I will do anything that promises to make me "feel good."  I'm a doper, but I've never been busted, never overdone it to the point of external attention and never ended up in the hospital, except for my experiments with Melatonin.

I have had to make a few choices lately to stay "clean,"  due to the policies at work. Otherwise, I would probably smoke a little dope to get to sleep, each night. It would really help me get to sleep, but I would lose my job, when I get caught.



</confessional>

that annoys the shit out of me. unless you work in a role which directly affects the safety of others, e.g. air traffic controller, *insert vehicle here* driver, why the fuck is it an employer's business what you choose to partake of outside working hours (providing of course you don't show up for work off your chops)? luckily drug testing employees is much less common on this side of the pond. invasion of fucking liberties.

I'd be tempted to stick a little amphetamine in the water cooler.  Would they fire everyone then?  Including themselves?

They'd have to prove intent, I think, and that goes for every such case, policy or no policy. In practical terms, I doubt that is a problem unless you catch two dozen people high on amphetamines.

From what I've read about it, if you test positive and can't produce a prescription, you're auto-fired.  I've never read a case where the employer had to prove anything, or even offer or allow a re-test.

[ozymandias]

I self-medicate obviously.    I am about to go do some more self-medicating in a minute.   

I'm headed for the sherry bottle myself.   

[DirtDawg]

BTW, I voted as a substance abuser. I will do anything that promises to make me "feel good."  I'm a doper, but I've never been busted, never overdone it to the point of external attention and never ended up in the hospital, except for my experiments with Melatonin.

I have had to make a few choices lately to stay "clean,"  due to the policies at work. Otherwise, I would probably smoke a little dope to get to sleep, each night. It would really help me get to sleep, but I would lose my job, when I get caught.

I want to hear about you ODing on melatonin and being hospitalised.

I already posted this.

... maybe two months ago. It happened in late June.

I don't think you can actually OD. I had taken three (five mil? Don't remember ... it was "confiscated") tabs over three hours. It did not agree with my system.

[Peter]

BTW, I voted as a substance abuser. I will do anything that promises to make me "feel good."  I'm a doper, but I've never been busted, never overdone it to the point of external attention and never ended up in the hospital, except for my experiments with Melatonin.

I have had to make a few choices lately to stay "clean,"  due to the policies at work. Otherwise, I would probably smoke a little dope to get to sleep, each night. It would really help me get to sleep, but I would lose my job, when I get caught.

I want to hear about you ODing on melatonin and being hospitalised.

I already posted this.

... maybe two months ago. It happened in late June.

I don't think you can actually OD. I had taken three (five mil? Don't remember ... it was "confiscated") tabs over three hours. It did not agree with my system.

Who confiscated it?  What gives them the right to confiscate things?

[DirtDawg]

BTW, I voted as a substance abuser. I will do anything that promises to make me "feel good."  I'm a doper, but I've never been busted, never overdone it to the point of external attention and never ended up in the hospital, except for my experiments with Melatonin.

I have had to make a few choices lately to stay "clean,"  due to the policies at work. Otherwise, I would probably smoke a little dope to get to sleep, each night. It would really help me get to sleep, but I would lose my job, when I get caught.



</confessional>

that annoys the shit out of me. unless you work in a role which directly affects the safety of others, e.g. air traffic controller, *insert vehicle here* driver, why the fuck is it an employer's business what you choose to partake of outside working hours (providing of course you don't show up for work off your chops)? luckily drug testing employees is much less common on this side of the pond. invasion of fucking liberties.

I'd be tempted to stick a little amphetamine in the water cooler.  Would they fire everyone then?  Including themselves?

I would go with lysergic acid diethylamide, personally. I have seen what that does to the unsuspecting, even been dropped myself, from very high up, by a friend.

[Peter]

BTW, I voted as a substance abuser. I will do anything that promises to make me "feel good."  I'm a doper, but I've never been busted, never overdone it to the point of external attention and never ended up in the hospital, except for my experiments with Melatonin.

I have had to make a few choices lately to stay "clean,"  due to the policies at work. Otherwise, I would probably smoke a little dope to get to sleep, each night. It would really help me get to sleep, but I would lose my job, when I get caught.



</confessional>

that annoys the shit out of me. unless you work in a role which directly affects the safety of others, e.g. air traffic controller, *insert vehicle here* driver, why the fuck is it an employer's business what you choose to partake of outside working hours (providing of course you don't show up for work off your chops)? luckily drug testing employees is much less common on this side of the pond. invasion of fucking liberties.

I'd be tempted to stick a little amphetamine in the water cooler.  Would they fire everyone then?  Including themselves?

I would go with lysergic acid diethylamide, personally. I have seen what that does to the unsuspecting, even been dropped myself, from very high up, by a friend.

Would that show up on a standard drug test?  The point isn't to get people high, but to make them fail a drug test, so it has to be something that's easy to administer covertly, which doesn't have pronounced effects in small doses and which is always tested for.