Should We Mandatory Drug Test Our Practitioners?

I can’t count the number of prescriptions I get from the same doctor for the same medication same quantity on a daily basis. I feel that some doctors are simply writing scripts to make the patient happy when in reality their feeding the addiction. I have seen patients jump form pharmacy to pharmacy in order to fill multiple scripts for the same medication on the same day. There is a system that collects and keeps track of the what types of controlled and narcotic medications people received, however the system takes days to update, so it almost impossible to know right away when the last time a patient received a particular opioid medication. Another issue that I believe is feeding the addiction for drugs abusers is the sale of needles. Depending on the state, people who do not have a prescription for needles or a medication that requires the use of needles, can simply walk into a pharmacy and buy a box of needles. Anyone with commons sense would see that if you don’t have a prescription that requires needles your most likely using it for illegal reasons. Pharmacy regulations make it to easy for people to get what they need in order to “get

The performance of random drug testing has seen its fair share of scrutiny in terms of cost, test result reliability, and constitutionality. Drug testing has been fraught with controversy for decades by both employers and employees alike and there are three valid reasons as to why the testing is not ideal. One of the main elements that is a cause for concern is an employee’s invasion of privacy. When an employee tests positive, there is a strong possibility and fear that they will be permanently stigmatized. Any explanation given to the employer, whether it’s voluntary or forced on contingency of employment, violates their HIPAA Rights. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for example, has referred to the practice as a "needless indignity" (DeCew, 1994).

As the medical community began to pull back on casually dispensing heroin, people began to question the medical

The issue of drug testing in the workplace has sparked an ongoing debate among management. There are many who feel that it is essential to prevent risks to the greater public caused by substance abuse while on the job. However, others believe that the costs far outweigh the benefits and that it is an invasion of privacy. Putting all ethical issues aside, evidence presented in this paper supports the latter. The costs of drug testing are excessive and only a small percentage of employees are actually found to be substance users. Drug testing in the work place has a negative effect on productivity; contrary to what was originally intended. It actually decreases productivity

Through my observations of the Narcotics Anonymous meeting I believe that my analysis could be beneficial to the realm of medicine. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014) released a study that displayed, “health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers in 2012, enough for every American adult to have a bottle of pills.” Considering the mass amount of prescriptions being written nationwide, it is not surprising that one of the members in the NA meeting I attended was able to easily obtain painkillers from her doctor. The specific interaction I encountered during the Narcotics Anonymous meeting where the woman described that her addiction was being supported by the constant prescriptions written by her doctor

There have been people who do not consider prescription drugs to be dangerous. In, The Ongoing Opioid Prescription Epidemic: Historical Context, it tells that Kathleen Foley at Memorial-Sloan Cancer Center published two highly influential articles reporting addiction to be rare among inpatients (Meldrum, 2016). The implied message is that there is no risk. This may be possible in some instances because, no two people are the same. The appeal being used is that long-term opioids were potentially safe, because patients could be trusted to manage their

In 2015 more than 33,000 people were killed due to the current opioid epidemic. This was the first time in history where heroin deaths exceeded deaths caused by gun violence. Some may ask why opioid addiction is so common and that is because most doctors, dentists, and surgeons prescribe opioids as if it's candy, post surgery. Most of these professionals don't take into consideration that such medication can cause addiction after multiple uses. A reason for that can be is prescribing such pills can benefit the doctor financially just as much as the patient psychically. Many pharmaceutical companies hand out a lot of freebies such as free sample medication, free food, free pens and office equipment to doctors in order to bride them over. In addition, many of these physicians over look patient's history's, and some cases like smoking many of these positions may even overload patient history that may show any prior drug abuse issues within their family history or personal use. This may even show if the patient

The United States welfare system should not support drug users because they are trying to get those people that need help, help. Therefore those people who are getting help from welfare should be bettering themselves and not hurting themselves. Drug testing should be mandatory, because this would be unfair to tax payers and other resources to support someone who abuses the benefit. Next, drug testing would benefit those who would need abuse treatment programs. Also, welfare should focus on families that would spend the money on necessities. Although welfare helps a lot of families, some use the money they receive to buy illegal drugs.

Over-prescribing opioids is frequent in doctors across Australia as patients are unaware of their addiction to pain medication. Doctors needs to be responsible for the patience health as legal precautions can be broken if not. Patients and doctors need to stay within their states regulations to properly take and prescribe opioids in order to prevent medicolegal risks and ensure safety.

Mandatorily drug testing a controversial issue right now. Mandatorily drug testing welfare recipients is wrong for many reasons. Not only is it unconstitutional but it also very costly. It adds to the debt that the USA already has. Drug testing the recipients is unnecessary and not needed.

In my opinion, sworn public police officers should be drug tested. Sworn public police officers play an essential role in the law enforcement system. They take an oath to protect the public, property, make an arrest, and carry firearms. They interact with the public and it’s expected for them to make sound judgments under pressure. In my opinion, being committed to public service and professionalism are things somebody looking for a career in law enforcement should possess.

The more availability, the more abusers there will be; there are many ways to how abusers can get drugs, and they are: by stealing, hospital personnel taking and selling it, and doctor shopping. Although it may come as a shock," Hospitals, like many other employers are subject to the risk that some employees will steal merchandise" (Cobaugh). Many employees of pharmacies and hospitals take the prescription drugs to sell to other or feed their addiction, "The diversion of opioids and other controlled substances from hospital pharmacies may result from improper actions by employees" (Cobaugh). One may do this because it is easily available to you and simpler to get it from someone else rather than a doctor. Most believe that because they have a medication for it it will be okay for them to have it and abuse it.

Thesis statement: Administering a drug and alcohol policy can be challenging, but it can also be beneficial to the manufacturing company.

Welfare Recipients, they need to be drug tested 100% of the time. If they are going to take government money then they need to be tested as government employees are tested. Also because if they are going to get money, they should not be able to be using drugs. We need to make sure that they are not going to use all the money they get on drugs. And they should also not be able to even have access to drugs.

In many years, companies adopted many programs to monitor substance abuse in the workplace. The implementation of drug testing by companies grew in recent years. American workers have seen a dramatic increase in the use of drug testing in the previous years. Drug testing is implemented to assure safe workplaces for American workers. Drug testing can reduce the company’s health care and insurance costs. Even though drug testing has become common in the workplace, there is little research that exists regarding this matter. Overall, drug testing affects the decisions of workers by adopting a “zero tolerance” policy. Experienced users try to beat these tests by using drug to cancel the tracking of the drug itself. These workers attempt to avoid the detection of drug use for long periods (Borack, 1995).