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- noun Any
chemical check for the presence of (usuallyillegal )drugs in a sample of one's blood, hair or urine.
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treeseed commented on the word drug test
A drug test is commonly a technical examination of urine, blood, sweat, hair follicles, or oral fluid samples to determine the presence or absence of specified drugs or their metabolized traces.
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See also hair testing
In my opinion, drug testing has become a serious civil liberties violation as it is required more and more frequently by employers in the United States and with increasingly more invasive techniques for even low-level employment where the outcome of a drug test is largely irrelevant. They are used to marginalize certain elements of the population. Often "insurance regulations" are the justification.
February 4, 2008