• J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2011

    The Fourth Amendment and random drug testing of people with chronic pain.

    • Mark Collen.
    • PAIN Exhibit, Sacramento, California, USA. Mark@PainExhibit.com
    • J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. 2011 Jan 1;25(1):42-8.

    AbstractIt is common for physicians who prescribe opioids for chronic pain to drug test their patients. This practice may soon be mandated by the State of Washington as a result of passage of their new law ESHB 2876. Random drug testing of people simply because they seek treatment for chronic pain arguably constitutes a suspicionless and warrantless search that violates both the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. Issues discussed include consent, circumstantial coercion, and "special needs" searches.

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