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Article: Intrusion or protection? // Employees put to the drug test
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 27, 1987
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Joe McInturff said he will never return to Chicago because he
worked all his life to become a city police officer - and then didn't
get the job. He was told drugs were found in his urine.
Frustrated because, he said, he couldn't possibly have tested
positive, Mr. McInturff, 25, moved from Chicago to Fort Myers, Fla.,
shortly before Christmas.
James Smith (not his real name) is a city employee who said an
imminent drug test forced him to admit to a cocaine habit that cost
him up to $25,000 last year and could have cost him his life.
Mr. Smith, 27, said he knew he was going to get a positive
reading on a drug test, and checked himself into a drug-treatment
facility.
These two cases ...