An old joke asks “How does a doctor define an alcoholic?”  Answer–“anybody who drinks more than he does.”   How does a physician health program (PHP)  define an alcoholic?  Answer –anybody who walks through the front door. These profiteers and “addiction addicts” want to test the urine, blood, hair and nails of the entire population but their current net has now expanded to medical students.   They want to test them all and let God sort them out but in reality, a zero-tolerance paradigm utilizing non-FDA approved tests of unknown validity would be  ruinous. With recreational and experimental drug use common in young adults a profession that refuses to accept anyone who tests positive for drugs will exclude large numbers of brilliant, talented individuals and dismissing highly talented people in medicine for what might be a one-off recreational non problematic drug experience would retard its advance.

The use of these non-FDA approved tests…