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600-85, KSARNG, Substance Abuse Prevention & Control, 2007 Jun 1(2)
| 10 – 2. Policy a. All attempts by any means to avoid providing a UA specimen when selected or ordered, to dilute a urine specimen to reduce the quantitative value of that specimen when confirmed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), to substitute any substance for one’s own urine, including the urine of another person, to chemically alter, adulterate, or modify one’s own urine, or to assist another Soldier or civilian employee in doing any of these actions are direct violations of the Army’s official UA policy. Soldiers who violate this paragraph are punishable under the UCMJ. Penalties for violating this paragraph include the full range of statutory and regulatory sanctions, both criminal and administrative. DA civilian employees who violate the regulations related to the Federal Drug-Free Workplace and DOT Testing Programs maybe subject to the full range of disciplinary or adverse administrative actions or both. b. Commanders may order a Soldier to provide a specimen for UA if they have probable cause to believe that illicit drugs are present within the Soldier’s body. Commanders should seek legal counsel before ordering the urine collection to help them confirm they have probable cause, but may order the collection without counsel if legal counsel is not available. Commanders should subsequently seek legal counsel to confirm that probable cause existed before using the result in any adverse action. c. Supervisors are authorized to test a civilian employee for illegal drug use under the following additional circumstances) When there is a reasonable suspicion that any employee uses illegal drugs, but such testing maybe directed for employees encumbering non-TDPs only if there is a reasonable suspicion of illegal drug use during duty hours or of performing work while impaired (2) When an employee is reasonably suspected of having caused or contributed to a work-related accident or unsafe practice (3) As apart of, or as a followup to, counseling or rehabilitation for illegal drug use through the EAP. d. Supervisors should seek legal counsel before the UA collection to help them confirm there is a reasonable suspicion, but the collection may proceed without legal counsel if none is available. In those cases supervisors must subsequently seek legal counsel to confirm that reasonable suspicion existed before using the drug test result in any adverse action. e. A commander may order a UA based upon reasonable suspicion to ensure a Soldier’s fitness for duty, even if the UA is not a valid inspection and no probable cause exists. However, the results of such a test maybe used only for limited purposes. Download 3.47 Mb. Share with your friends:
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