[Homestead] Drug screens and the way things should be

Marie McHarry mmcharry at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 00:39:16 EDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Lynda <lurine at com-pair.net> wrote:
> All drug screens ask for that because certain medications will give false
> positives.  If you don't list the drugs/OTCs, then they run the standard
> test and you get a rejection slip from the company you apply to.  If they
> have the complete list (and they should have asked if you eat certain things
> also, btw), then they run tests that specifically preclude the
> prescription/OTC drugs.

Yes, I'm reminded of the Jewish chaplain in one of the branches of the
armed services who kept failing his drug test. Turned out he had a
jones all right -- for poppy seed bagels.

Marie



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