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From: dms@ihlpg.UUCP (Spang)
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Subject: Drug testing
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Date: Mon, 19-May-86 08:36:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 19 08:36:20 1986
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Re: all this drug testing rhetoric.

I'm suprised at myself because I was as big an opponent of this drug-
testing business as anyone until yesterday.
My husband had been laid off his job 3 months ago along with 140 others.
They are starting the call backs now with the condition that each employee
take a physical and urine test. My husband is number 92 out of 140 on the
list. Part of me is furious about this testing thing and most of me hopes
a large number fail so that his chances of returning increase. The job market
for factory work is closed and I think that any advantage my husband's 
abstinance gives him is great.  
It is easy to moralize but let's be practical.
If there is only one job in town and it is
between you and someone with possibly illegal habits, you probably would
welcome a test.

A little less left of center,
debra spang
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