Testy, Testy Drug testing: an easy way to keep problem employees out or a cost-ineffective invasion of privacy? Join the debate.

These days, it seems employee drug testing has become about ascommonplace as providing business cards. Chances are, if youdon't already have a drug-testing policy, you're probablyconsidering instituting one. And for the most part, potential andexisting employees have even come to accept it as a part of thepresent-day job process. So why, when drug testing appears to besuch a vital part of the modern American workplace, are somesmall-business owners and experts re-evaluating whether it'sreally good for business?

According to Daniel Abrahamson, legal affairs director for theLindesmith Center in San Francisco, "Employers need to thinkhard about why they're drug testing; what their bottom lineis."