Who knew that urine could be such a gateway into the mind and body? Is she pregnant? How are the old kidneys working?No routine physical exam is ever complete without pissing into a cup.
I imagine that no one ever tried to cheat on a pregnancy test, and that's why pregnant women are allowed to pee without being intimately observed by an agent of the government. And I'm sure that folks try to monkey up the results of a drug test in an infinite number of ways. On the other hand, drugs can be tested for in hair, which gives a very long term snapshot, and with a sweat patch for monitoring day to day affairs. Interestingly, both appear to be susceptible of less manipulation than the test that gave rise to a giant pee industry.
Now we've got home drug tests and it must be awful for parents to wrestle with the concept that the test may very well be worthless unless they observe the urine stream leaving their childs body. Next we'll have companies offering to send a hired pee watcher to the home? There are currently thousand and thousand of prison guards, parole officers, lab techs, etc. out there getting a pay check for intruding into an activity that was once thought to be private. Add what they get paid to the cost of running the actual tests and we could probably give free drugs to every addict for less than we spend just on this little side pockect of the drug war.
The question that everyone should ask, though, is how much would you have to be paid to look at an endless stream of cocks and pussies, and do it closely enough to know that the pee that ends up in the cup is the real deal? If your answer is "I might do it if this was the only way to keep my family from starving to death", you're normal. But what does that say about the ones who accept only a routine pay check for helping degrade our society to the point where we now consider the government to have a legitimate interest in our bodily wastes? If THEY own your pee, how much longer before THEY own the rest of you as well? And how would you like to live next door to some motherfucker weird enough to administer piss tests for a living? If you knew who they were, would you allow them to be alone with children?
If the truth got out that current drug testing methods simply cannot do what's claimed, the damage to the credibility of government drug warriors would surely be substantial. Take Ibuprofen for example. Or, actually, don't take it if you are going to soon be tested for illegal drug use. The common drug tests in use today (meaning the ones that are affordable enough to be implemented on a large scale) have the problem that Advil users will quite commonly be identified as individuals who have partaken of marijuana. Sadly, there always is the specter of a "false positive" drug test result, and no one has a clue how much damage has been done to how many people from this.
We know that the poppy seeds in bread products can make a person look like a heroin user on a urine test. And there is the standard "banned items" list that is given to every person required to submit to testing by the criminal justice system, none of which are illegal. What there isn't, however, is any extensive testing that has been done to identify every possible source of every type of false result for every person on the planet.
In medicine, any particular drug/medication perscribed to three people for the same purpose could very easily cure one of them, kill one, and do nothing for the third. You know that if you have ever listened to the disclaimers that follow every drug advertisment on T.V. (I mean, some small number of people even get a four hour erection from ED drugs, and you don't think that that would be the main selling point for a Viagra competitor if they could offer a money back guarantee?) Cancer treatment has even reached the point of sophistication where scientists are starting to realize that a DNA test can determine which treatment might work on which persons with identical diagnoses. The cancers are the same but the people are not, and that's why the same chemo treatment may or may not work.
When we reach the point where the human race has tested every organism and substance on the planet for chemical composition, and we know how to cure every possible affliction in every individual person, we'll know that we can conduct testing for illegal drug use with perfect precision. Until then we'll slop our way through it, and the best we can hope for is that our drug testing progams don't do more harm than the drugs we are "fighting".