TOWN MEETING: DEFEATING DRUGS Videotaped informational segments on issue of DRUG ABUSE, means for fighting the drug problem. Master 11375 Tape 1
Host Charles Ogletree introduces segment on drug testing in the workplace.
Lab technicians work in a urinalysis laboratory. Drug testing.
Titles show statistics on growth of drug testing by employers.
Electric company worker checking transformer switches.
Aerial of Washington DC.
Exterior of Potomac Electric Power Co.
William Wolverton. PEPCO manager, says employees are required to "report to work drug free".
Shots of inside an Electricity Plant. Man checking gauges.
William Wolverton. PEPCO manager, says that drug testing is only given if an employee gives indication that they might be high on the job.
Shots of inside an Electricity Plant. Man checking some type of machine or turbine.
Alan Adler, American Civil Liberties Union lawyer, leaving his office. He says that a drug test can't prove whether a worker was high on the job or just used drugs in the recent past.
Lab technicians work in a urinalysis laboratory. Drug testing. Also using 1980s computers.
Alan Adler, American Civil Liberties Union lawyer, cautions that drug testing on a "for cause" standard can be a way for companies to punish employees who are viewed as "troublemakers".
William Wolverton. PEPCO manager, says that even trace amounts of drugs in an employee's system mean that the employee is impaired.
Workers in the Electric plant checking gauges and firing a furnace.
Doors to Employment Office. Applicants in waiting room, filling out forms.
Men working for the electric company are raised up in a cherry picker to check electric poles.