[speaker001:] we're all set there um
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] have you ever been tested for drugs
[speaker002:] uh no I sure haven't huh-uh
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I've worked in uh many jobs where it was a requirement to uh for the actual position I've worked for power plants across the country as a nuclear inspector
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and one of their requirements for that job was basically to have a drug test
[speaker002:] what kind of test do they do I mean just
[speaker001:] just urine urine tests
[speaker002:] for urine tests
[speaker001:] yeah checking for various types of drugs
[speaker002:] uh have you heard that they can test so far back as say six or seven months whether you've done drugs by uh taking some of your hair
[speaker001:] um I've heard of that happening I've from everything I've experienced the only way they've ever done it is urine tests
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but is that possible though
[speaker001:] I would imagine it probably is
[speaker002:] oh okay uh hm well no I've never been tested for uh drugs or anything like that
[speaker001:] um-hum how do you feel about uh testing in in the uh
[speaker002:] work place
[speaker001:] work place
[speaker002:] uh I don't think it's really necessary it just depends on the type job it is if it's a job that's uh dealing with say uh like a pharmacy job or something like that maybe
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know a certain amount of testing should be done or in the field of a doctor or something like that but uh as far as just yeah every day job I would say no
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] just certain categories I would say
[speaker001:] anything dealing with the safety of the public or
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] yeah I feel pretty strong about that too
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] it's strange I the last job I had up in uh Plymouth New Hampshire it was for an accounts position
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh I actually had to take a drug test prior to getting that job
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] which I thought was rather unusual since I didn't really wasn't effecting the safety of the public at all
[speaker002:] hm that is unusual
[speaker001:] but it I think it shows a growing trend uh in the work place to do drugs testing they don't want people who uh basically have that characteristic characteristic in there or that trait in their character
[speaker002:] um but the thing is that do you think at some some point you know probably about everyone has has experienced drugs of some type
[speaker001:] what excuse me I didn't hear that
[speaker002:] do you think that it's possible that uh about every individual have experienced some drugs of some type do you think
[speaker001:] no I don't think so at all we we're uh recently at a little camp out with about fifteen people and well I'm thirty one but lot a lot of the people that were there were in the twenty one to twenty four age group
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and a good portion of them had not experienced drugs because that topic had come up they hadn't even experimented with it
[speaker002:] oh that's
[speaker001:] which I see as a good trend toward the future
[speaker002:] right is it a pretty large so it must be a pretty large percentage still that experiment with drugs right
[speaker001:] I think in the past there has been
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] I think definitely in the seventies and early eighties
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um it almost became a a popular thing to just to experiment and try it
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] uh as far as users regular users um again it also depends on what what what areas you're looking at too
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] I think in more in your suburban suburban areas I think you see less of it um and more in the cities uh it's more likely you're more likely to encounter that
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah that's true well what what do you think the chances of of drugs ever diminishing uh because a lot of it I feel that they catch the people that handling drugs but they're not catching the people that bring in drugs into the country
[speaker001:] um I think it's not necessarily a losing battle but I don't think it's one you can win I think it's
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] it's drugs have been around since the beginning of time just about um in one form or another people looking for a way to relax
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um unfortunately they're people the drug makers the illegal drug makers are experimenting with more dangerous variations of what use to be very harmless drugs
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] or relatively harmless and also our technical our society has become more technical so that the when you use a drug the ramifications of uh side of uh a side effect harming other people has become more uh frequent
[speaker002:] hm that's interesting
[speaker001:] you know the chance of getting into an automobile now a days and hurting someone being on drugs or in a plane if you're a pilot
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] well that's true
[speaker001:] it's pretty uh pretty high whereas three hundred years ago the worse you could do was probably fall off a horse
[speaker002:] it sure was true uh