Quote Originally Posted by Gorilla's Gal
I feel a lot of people initially get here trying to pass a drug test for employment. I hear so many stories about people abusing these systems and wonder why the topic of drug testing people on these systems never comes up. I'm sure there are many legitiment cases but I have personally seen people who could work try to collect and people who physically don't have limbs and still work. What do you think?
Mental illness is as debilitating as any physical illness-with or without limbs! The idea of passing a drug test in my opinion is to allow one to be employed! Just because you can't see a person's illness, doesn't mean it isn't there. I can see where one might be annoyed by a person needing to pass a drug test. If you suspect these people are just stoners trying to 'work the system' and abuse ours. Ask them. I often see those threads and seldom open them. Why, doesn't apply to me anymore. If it did, I'd be there daily. I'd do anything to be able to work again (short of a needless barbaric surgery-which I have put off so long, it may not even be an option any more).

The issue is like a paper cut on the finger--stoners will drop in and think we have a magic cure for their problem. Then we have those regular members that get a 'drug test tomorrow' sprung on them in the workplace! Due to the climate and legal issue's those people need you and their support. And, like me, I believe everyone (for the most part) you become a skeptic-even that passes. Some are so obvious you can't pass them up, you have to call them out and find out, if anyone could be so dumb to get in that spot. But, it isn't being dumb that got them in that spot. It is the love of life and part of that love is being able to be gainfully employed!

Since, this is a medical use sight, I think if someone 'thinks' they have a problem they do. Even if it isn't exactly what their question is. It is a start for them, to find out what their problem is. Life is a daily growing and learning process.

Some people thrive by the attention they get from illness, whether real or perceived. The truth is, they are, just not where they think. The illness would be the need for negatively hooking people into giving them attention for something that doesn't exist! Therefore, needs a psychiatrist. But, they have to come to that conclusion. I know a 68 year old that has been a victim of life prior to birth and milks every little ache and pain. Won't touch most prescribed medicine (unless it is a public issue-for attention) or try something like cannabis, which is very needed. I find that the issue.

You seldom find people that are regulars in the Forum asking for 'drug test' help. Because, they know what to do. And when they share the results, it is for the benefit of others that are still able to push their bodies to work. Once, you have a major injury or the body fails-it changes how you view a lot of things. And you have more time to think about it too! PR:hippy:

I just re-read your quote again and I think I just missed the whole issue. YOu are actually talking about able bodied people that are 'trying to collect' and work to screw the system? :wtf: Is that it? If so, I have nothing to say, because it just screws us all! And that is why so many people here have so much trouble getting benefits they paid for. PR