NYC Drug Tests Results Thrown Out

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News U.S. District Judge Robert P. Patterson has ordered the results of thousands of marijuana tests quashed. The tests were performed on New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) employees in the 1980s. In his decision, Judge Patterson said that urine samples were frequently contaminated; that laboratory methods were inaccurate; and that employees weren’t given adequate notice of test results. The judge also invalidated the NYCTA’s policy of urine testing for employees who are neither suspected drug users nor in safety-sensitive jobs, according to a report . . .