U.S. Pledges Drug-Test Safeguards;False-Positive Fears Are Addressed From: The Washington Post | Date: February 20, 1987| Author: | Copyright 1987 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

The government, trying to reassure federal workers that they won't be unjustly fired because of a false positive drug test, announced yesterday that urine samples will be subjected to state-of-the-art chemical analysis before an employe can be turned in for drug use.

"The military has proved that it can be done with 100 percent accuracy," Attorney General Edwin Meese III said at a news conference. Meese said he wanted to "debunk the myth" that "false positive results are going to cause a vast number of federal workers to be wrongly fired."

Dr. Otis R. Bowen, secretary of the Department of ...

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