Workplace Drug Abuse and AIDS: A Guide to Human Resource Management Policy and Practice

214 Pages·1991·9.37 MB·English

by  Donald Klingner

WORKPLACE DRUG
ABUSE AND AIDS
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WORKPLACE DRUG
ABUSE AND AIDS
A Guide to Human Resource
Management Policy
and Practice
Donald Klingner with Nancy G O'Neill
Q
QUORUM BOOKS
NEW YORK • WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT • LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Klingner, Donald E.
Workplace drug abuse and AIDS : a guide to human resource
management policy and practice / Donald Klingner with Nancy G.
O'Neill.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-89930-624-1 (alk. paper)
1. Drugs and employment—United States. 2. Drug testing—United
States. 3. AIDS (Disease)—United States—Diagnosis. 4. Employee
assistance programs—United States. I. O'Neill, Nancy G.
II. Title.
HF5549.5.D7K55 1991
658.3 ' 82—dc20 90-46719
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.
Copyright © 1991 by Donald Klingner
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 90-46719
ISBN: 0-89930-624-1
First published in 1991
Quorum Books, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984).
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21
Copyright Acknowledgment
The author and publisher wish to acknowledge Betsy Freeman of the
Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce for permission to reprint extracts
from "Business Against Drugs" as Appendix A in this volume.
Contents
Tables vii
Preface ix
Introduction xi
I. Substance Abuse Testing
1. Substance Abuse in the Workplace 3
2. Substance Abuse Testing Techniques 17
3. Substance Abuse Testing and the Law 39
4. Personnel Policies and Practices 47
5. Employee Assistance Programs 61
6. Working with Employees and Unions 71
II. AIDS Testing
7. The Problem of AIDS 89
VI CONTENTS
8. The Technology of AIDS Testing 105
9. AIDS and the Law 111
10. AIDS Policies and Practices 123
11. Conclusion: Workplace Drug and AIDS Policies
Are a Metaphor for Our Future 139
Appendices
A. Sample Substance Abuse Testing Policy 151
B. Sample Workplace AIDS Policy 160
C. Where to Get Help When You Need It 165
Index 187
Tables
1. Lifetime, Annual, and Thirty-Day Drug Use in the United States 5
2. Test Findings and Organizational Outcome Implications 18
3. CAGE Test for Alcohol Abuse 22
4. Detection Limits of Commonly Abused Drugs 27
5. Blind Proficiency Testing Programs 35
6. Race and Ethnicity of Persons with AIDS in the United States 93
7. Gender of Persons with AIDS in the United States 94
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Preface
Writing a book is a bit like raising a child. It begins as a gleam in your eye. You
form it, shape it, and watch it take on a life of its own. And once it becomes mature it
passes into the publisher's hands, beyond your control entirely. You can only hope you
have done enough and that it may be well received as it makes its way into the world.
There remains the obligation to write well, and creatively. A book is like a child
in that the need to create causes both a sense of joy and a sense of responsibility—
joy when things come together with clarity, and responsibility for approaching
complex subjects with clarity and insight. So much has been written on substance
abuse and AIDS that it is better to say nothing at all than to say nothing new. And
so this book is dedicated to those employees, human resource managers, and re
searchers who have spurred me to write, and to whom the book is dedicated: Alvah
Chapman, Marilyn Culp, Robert Denhardt, J. Malcolm Moore, Faustino Pino, M.
Gamal Sabet, Ray Surette, and Sally Williams. I can only hope that it does justice
to the insights they gave me and the dilemmas they defined.
Nancy G. O'Neill deserves special thanks for her review of the entire manu
script, and particularly her assistance in writing chapters 2 and 8. She opened my