Keep your mouth shut.

[HTM Yaris]

The specimen cup I am refering to has a thermometer built in . If your urine isn't within a certain temp range you are asked to repeat . Also the toilets/faucets have blue dyed water ( Yes , we have special bathroom for that ) Not to mention someone of the same sex will be in the bathroom to witness . Most hospitals have a full laboratory , much better than a test kit . Test kits are also susceptable to false positives . Also a test kit can easily be fooled with Lasix ( used for congestive heart failure , it in effect draws water directly from blood cells). A lab will detect the Lasix , a kit won't . If you don't have a prescription for Lasix ,well then you're busted .

Word to the wise , Lemon poppy seed muffins will show up as opiates up to two days after ingested . This was proved on Mythbusters .

If you are suspended with out pay , it doesn't mean you can't draw from your retirement plan .

[HTM Yaris]

Oh yeah , one more thing . If someone out there is thinking of getting their hands on some Lasix to pass a drug test , think again , Lasix will deplete your body of "something" that is essential to your survival . Meaning it will kill you !!! Thats why Lasix is presciption only .

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by HTM Yaris

Oh yeah , one more thing . If someone out there is thinking of getting their hands on some Lasix to pass a drug test , think again , Lasix will deplete your body of "something" that is essential to your survival . Meaning it will kill you !!! Thats why Lasix is presciption only .

It's Potassium, and the means of computing how much to take to avoid dropping dead is pretty esoteric. A good Physician would tell you to go screw yourself if you asked them. A pill mill might help but if you drop dead it's on them.

Naturally there are workarounds for the workaround. If all else fails samples of hair can be taken. Those tests are expensive but lasix will not help you.

When it comes to drugs a body can run but they cannot hide. In the final analysis the monkey on your back will kick your ass if nobody else gets around to it.

Gene

[HTM Yaris]

Dude , you weren't supposed to tell them that

Back in the early 90's ( before we actually locked the drug carts in the OR ) , some vandal broke in to the OR and stole some drugs . What he didn't know was that he injected NORCURON , and as you probably know , it is a paralytic . His life ended in the parking lot . Must have been a horrible death , not being able to move or say anything while watching the world fade away .

[JBougie]

Originally Posted by HTM Yaris

Dude , you weren't supposed to tell them that

Back in the early 90's ( before we actually locked the drug carts in the OR ) , some vandal broke in to the OR and stole some drugs . What he didn't know was that he injected NORCURON , and as you probably know , it is a paralytic . His life ended in the parking lot . Must have been a horrible death , not being able to move or say anything while watching the world fade away .

Oh my gosh - that's horrible!

Well - kinda. It's natural selection really ... but it's still a really crappy way to go :( Do you think it was painful?

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by HTM Yaris

The specimen cup I am refering to has a thermometer built in . If your urine isn't within a certain temp range you are asked to repeat . Also the toilets/faucets have blue dyed water ( Yes , we have special bathroom for that ) Not to mention someone of the same sex will be in the bathroom to witness . Most hospitals have a full laboratory , much better than a test kit . Test kits are also susceptable to false positives . Also a test kit can easily be fooled with Lasix ( used for congestive heart failure , it in effect draws water directly from blood cells). A lab will detect the Lasix , a kit won't . If you don't have a prescription for Lasix ,well then you're busted .

Word to the wise , Lemon poppy seed muffins will show up as opiates up to two days after ingested . This was proved on Mythbusters .

If you are suspended with out pay , it doesn't mean you can't draw from your retirement plan .

Yeah, you got the "real deal". I've had several such tests and remember the thermometer.

Nobody will "witness" the test but the bathroom is tiny and you're timed and the toilet water is blue. When we're asked to be tested we're under constant observation from the time we get hurt until we submit a specimen. We seal and sign the sealing tape. You don't get any time to pump some "clean" urine into your bladder. Ain't happening.

I hate drug testing but not as much as working with someone who could kill me by screwing up.

A few months ago some clowns decided to hook up a machine. They had three phase power, over 5,000 volts. They hooked up one end of a set of high voltage "cables" to the gadget and another set of cables to the power station.

The punchline being that they hooked up two different sets of cables. One end of each set went "no where", which meant that one set was just dangling out there in the breeze with over 5,000 volts on them.

They threw the switch, the system reacted, damaging an overload device and melting it internally. This device also knocked down the power. Thank God nobody was near the ends of the cables that had power on them, it was pretty dramatic.

We usually have a separate party of senior folks check your work before we apply power. That's a policy which some guys sometimes neglect. These guys circumvented the process. They were given little notes of appreciation in their employee files, everyone was retrained and then life went on.

Another thing that happened after this "incident" was that a whole bunch of guys refused to work with the guilty culprits. We have the right to do that, rejecting such folks because they're "dangerous".

Gene