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Pissing on demand : workplace drug testing and the rise of the detox industry / Kenneth D. Tunnell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tunnell, Kenneth D.
- Series:
- Alternative criminology series.
- Alternative criminology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Employees--Drug testing--United States.
- Employees.
- Detoxification (Substance abuse treatment)--United States.
- Detoxification (Substance abuse treatment).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drug testing has become the norm in many workplaces. In order to get a job, potential employees are required to provide their urine for testing. Pissing on Demand examines this phenomenon along with the resulting rise of the anti-drug testing movement, or the ""detox industry,"" that works to beat these tests. Strategies include over-the-counter products like ""body flushers"" that sound innocent but are really designed to mask the presence of illegal drugs to kits advertised in pro-drug publications like High Times that make no bones about their real purpose. The first exposé of the detox ind
- Contents:
- The emergence of drug testing
- The drug testing industry
- The detox industry
- Drug testing as social monitoring and control
- The politics of resistance.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-172) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814784389
- 0814784380
- 9780814783443
- 0814783449
- 9781429414876
- 1429414871
- OCLC:
- 779828303
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