To test or not to test?
Is it just me or is everyone a little ambivalent about civil liberties?
There’s a lot of talk about drugs in sport this week.
Former West Coast Eagles captain Ben Cousins has reportedly entered re hab after being suspended indefinitely by his football club.
The drug of choice at West Coast is apparently ICE, the cheap, synthetic, highly destructive methamphetamine.
This morning I spoke to former Wallaby Peter FitzSimons - who is passionately anti drug testing of sports people for recreational drugs. Peter claims no employer, be it sporting coaches or radio station managers has the right to know what a person gets up to on a Saturday night.
He says Ben Cousins has a right to exorcise his demons without the added pressure of public scrutiny over recreational drug use.
I disagree. I am not advocating constant testing. Not at all.
But if a player or a politician or an employee’s performance falls below par…if, like Ben Cousins, a person in your employ is found outside a nightclub acting paranoid and behaving in a manner that is a danger to themselves(and doesn’t turn up for work on Monday), then I think the employer – no matter who they are has the right to demand a drug test.
And so we come to the subject of Mark. Mark has refused a drug test this morning, despite some pressure from our Program Director.
I would like to go into bat for Mark – I don’t think he’s got anything to hide – he just doesn’t think he’s done anything to warrant a test. And fair enough.
If his behaviour was more erratic than usual, which it’s not folks – this is him… then I would feel differently…but what do you think
There’s a lot of talk about drugs in sport this week.
Former West Coast Eagles captain Ben Cousins has reportedly entered re hab after being suspended indefinitely by his football club.
The drug of choice at West Coast is apparently ICE, the cheap, synthetic, highly destructive methamphetamine.
This morning I spoke to former Wallaby Peter FitzSimons - who is passionately anti drug testing of sports people for recreational drugs. Peter claims no employer, be it sporting coaches or radio station managers has the right to know what a person gets up to on a Saturday night.
He says Ben Cousins has a right to exorcise his demons without the added pressure of public scrutiny over recreational drug use.
I disagree. I am not advocating constant testing. Not at all.
But if a player or a politician or an employee’s performance falls below par…if, like Ben Cousins, a person in your employ is found outside a nightclub acting paranoid and behaving in a manner that is a danger to themselves(and doesn’t turn up for work on Monday), then I think the employer – no matter who they are has the right to demand a drug test.
And so we come to the subject of Mark. Mark has refused a drug test this morning, despite some pressure from our Program Director.
I would like to go into bat for Mark – I don’t think he’s got anything to hide – he just doesn’t think he’s done anything to warrant a test. And fair enough.
If his behaviour was more erratic than usual, which it’s not folks – this is him… then I would feel differently…but what do you think
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