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Show i = roe bo ae me i | } : — : October 1995 ~ Utah Resorts Get Tou ch about the Whiz Quiz by Russell Agle start flocking to Alta and Brighton with packed bowls and a party-hearty attitude, though. Just because they beware the piss pa Lhe Tufts School o she reports to the lab because drug testing is office with a picture ID. Nutrition has The testee is then asked determined that and checked to see that set policy. The other three officially reserve the right to wee-wee the truth out How, to of you. How does the drug testing process at the various resorts affect the common Joe or Josephine in search of of divulging sampling is the last three months of your chemical past, and can reveal your trysts with five families of drugs: opiates, cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamines and PCP. If your employer is mean? a monthly dole of the little chamber pots to various Hair another fun and painless way employees. random to exercise his or her right to choose between three sample containers (women can choose larger cups) and off they go for four minutes in the bathroom. Enjoy. around. Once on the payroll, however, the story is’ different: Park City, Snowbird and Solitude conduct random testing of, their. minions. does sibility, the testee is allowed the Man track these contraband trails? There are four established methods of testing for drugs. There are quite reliably but are also the most intrusive procedures clear: none of the resorts test At Snowbird, random means does blood and breath.tests, which pens to occasionally indulge in the use of illicit substances? The first step toward that golden pass is What exactly, right | test for alcohol and drugs a season pass, who also hap- prospective — What if, say, hypo-- thetically, maybe, there is some concern regarding the unlikely but possible scenario in which one tests positive for drug use? Live is not necessarily over. Labs can, and will, detect most “cleaners” that nervous testees ingest. Mary Jane soap, for instance does not work. It just makes you look like you drank a lot of soap. really uptight, pressed for time and has no ability to smell at all, there are saliva | alcohol tests which take minutes to complete. The popu- ihe . . Chiptox chasers. Urinade, the past savior of larity of these methods, how- test-weary Same goes for bleach; forget citizens, Page 7 can be em ee Aare nya peer TD Zftah State “fiquor /icensee Hours: Monday-Thursday 11 am - 9 pm eaenme Sree: pais Come try our Fresh Italian Food Open for Lunch an Dinner ‘ Sandy Mall FR ae tte een 834 East 9400 So. meeecereetanttnecmenttthmneaenen teen tent re en tt you ready?” If, indeed, stage fright has taken hold and they aren’t ready, the lab technicians can wait. An uncomfortable plastic chair and all the free water he or she can drink are at their disposal until all systems are go. When excretion is a pos- sideration at Brighton now. seem to be moving closer to a drug-free work environment. | 7 City) only two do not have a their prerogative an established policy does not mean that they can’t test. Utah state law reserves their right to establish and/or test at any given moment. In fact, just such a policy is under con- Snowbird, Solitude and Park that poppy seeds can test as an opiate or codeine in one of these exams. And how long, exactly, does the tinkle and for worse, Utah’s resorts A and return to work testing. Among the five resorts queried (Alta, Brighton, utilize (Baggy jackets and other —§ concealment-. friendly apparel is removed during the ceremony). The testee is then told, “It’s going to be a urine sample, are these exams” testing, post-accident testing School of Nutrition and Medicine has determined test vuices on their person. codeine in one ot have The Tufts testing, the there are no suspicious ds can as an opiate or don’t be a good idea. of drug individual employee’s legal right to privacy essentially is. flushed down the tubes by the people’s (read employer’s) right to know in the name of safety. 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When trying to get a job at a resort his winter, remember to | random well, random. out of the human tt along with it. Keeping that Finally, at | In the judicial quag- of flushing all the baddies tt means, in her system the concerned to be relieved. Urinalysis is an accurate procedure, but not. infallible. All three testing resorts use the services of the WorkCare corporation, which has one standard testing procedure. When an employee is asked to be the | reunlucky specimen, he or to three days a person’s good times. ee Solitude residual THC hands were clean. For this, actual- ly, there is some reason for mete asks her. to donate a sample of nitrates — and traces of no established eee fun of it. Suddenly, her boss with et the resorts. pattern. In addition, Park City tests employees post accidentia to make sure their Most reports seem to indicate that urinalysis is good for testing the past two le wants, ing toilets at the resort for the past three weeks for the tell? oo pass; she hadn’t been clean- detected as well. What can be done? Well, hydration might be an understatement. Two to four gallons of water will do a pretty effective job = ever, pales a comparison with widespread use of urinalysis, which is used by all S employees. At Park City, random means that the resort tests when and whom it carrer = Three feet of powder just fell and Sheila P. Ohn is set to inaugurate her season |