Steal This Urine Test: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (573 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140104003 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Scorpio69 said Steal This Review!. This book should be required reading for all of those video-numbed and propaganda-filled young minds who came of age during or after the dark era of Ronald Reagan and Ed Meese, for whom urinating in a cup in order to get a job is "normal". Abbie gives us the real history of this insanity and solid information on the shortfalls of such testing, along with some practical advice on how to get around. Very helpful information to see how tests are avoided. Hard to rate! As a substance abuse professional who has been doing drug testing for well over 25 years, I find this book helpful to find games people play to avoid detection. I use it heavily when doing training to show students what their clients learn from the "underground." One problem with the details is its lack of accuracy. His philosophy overrides his sense of science.The book goes far to . one of abbie's best books yet. I quote Abbie's research in this book everywhereI go. A good paraphrase to preface EVERY utterence is"no one would go to a doctor who simply said, 'Rest, vitamin-C and apple juice,' unless s/he also ordered the patient SOME kind of prescription. A magic pill." -abbie badly paraphrased by the prime anarchist, his humble nephew and "servant-to-cause."
A satirical, yet serious, response to mandatory drug testing in the workplace. Black-and-white cartoons.. From America's most visible, most devoted rebel--ammunition galore to combat an insidious, insulting threat to the rights of all Americans
From Publishers Weekly Former Yippie Hoffman (Steal this Book, Square Dancing in the Ice Age) examines drug testing in political, social and legal contexts while shattering myths about drug use and abuse. While Hoffman holds attention throughout with puns ("mind over bladder"), anecdotes and satirical writing ("golden showers come your way"), it is the extensive, in-depth research and a barrage of facts and figures that make this the definitive guide to the current drug-testing environment. Discussing misconceptions about urine testing and apparent violations of constitutional rights, he provides up-to-date information on the reliability of testing procedures and points out how lab errors are made. Instead of funding rehabilitation programs, Hoffman contends, the government mainly engages in "propaganda ploys" that neither he