Drug Testing         My first topic paper is drug testing. Drug

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Drug Testing My first topic paper is drug testing. Drug testing is used in all fields of work, from a fast food employee to a professional athlete. Is it morally right for companies to give their employees random drug tests? I think so.

This could be considered an invasion of privacy, but it is necessary for companies to be sure that everyone in the company is clean and in a safe working environment.

In the profession of sports athletes get suspended all of the time when they fail a drug test. The drug testing is absolutely great that the drug tests are given at random, that helps keep these employees clean and away from the source. If an employee refuses to take a drug test they should be fired. From a source that I have found 40% of young adults entering the work force have admitted to using drugs in the past year.

One way to get that down is random drug testing. I think that employers have a moral right to a fair day?s work in exchange for a fair day?s pay. They also have a right to inquire into anything that seriously interferes with an employee rendering a fair day?s work. It is a well-known fact that drugs can significantly impair a person?s work performance, lowering productivity. In fact, drug and alcohol abuse cost employers nearly $100 billion in lost productivity each year. Employees who use drugs have double the rate of absenteeism, higher job turnover rates, and cost three times as much in terms of medical benefits as those who don?t use drugs, which is a very important and good reason for the rights of drug testing and make it completely right for the testing to happen. Society has a moral duty to protect the health and...