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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (651410)4/14/2012 1:32:53 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1580415
 
>> Why would this be of any more concern than the person that drinks?

I generally agree, however, it is much easier for a drug addict to use drugs at work unnoticed than it is for a drinker to drink alcohol at work and remain unnoticed. Which is why so many businesses drug test.

But if a person is functioning well at work while addicted I just don't have a problem with it. I'd like for them to get straightened out, and I wouldn't want them to expose the business to undue risk. But simply being a drug addict, in and of itself, doesn't do that.

I think there is an irrational misunderstanding of what addiction is. I can understand it. We've all been brought up to believe these people are subhuman, out of control people. Sometimes they are and sometimes they're not.

There are many, many people who are severely addicted to painkillers and work every single day, reliably and competently. But it is all okay because they have a prescription.

The prescription does NOTHING to mitigate the drug addiction (and in fact, enables it -- doctors write them, pharmacists fill them). These people, because they're not buying them on the street, are permitted to hold down jobs. Those who are buying it on the street are denied that, if the law catches them.

It is just irrational policy.
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