Pissing on Demand: Workplace Drug Testing and the Rise of the Detox Industry: 18 (Alternative Criminology) - Hardcover

Tunnell, Ken D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814782809 ISBN 13: 9780814782804

Publisher: NYU Press, 2004

Synopsis

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 industry in all its manifestations, this book is required reading for anyone concerned with social control, privacy, and workers' rights.

About this title

About the Author

Kenneth D. Tunnell teaches at Eastern Kentucky University. His previous books include Living Off Crime, Choosing Crime, and Political Crime in Contemporary America.

Edition details

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814782809
• ISBN 13: 9780814782804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 179