[QUOTE=dsachs]I'm currently watching my 18yo daughter jump through hoops to explain
why she tested positive for amphetamine use during pre-employment
drug testing for her first real job. She was offered employment three
weeks ago and has hit this snag, even though she tried to inform the
testing facility that she was under a physicians care and had brought her
presctriptions with her. The lab did not want to hear anything about her
medications and told her that the employer would deal with the issue.
Then, when the results came in positive, the employer acted diappointed!
Aren't there guidlines for disclosing legal use of medications at the front
end of the process? Does this make sense?[/QUOTE]

Hello.  You probably need to get her physician to write a statement to her employer stating that this amphetamine is necessary for her to take for her medical condition she has at this time.  And I believe that the employer has to honor that.  Let me know how it goes.

LeahLee

Any updates?

This is an issue that I have been frustrated by many times.  I've worked several temporary gigs, and almost all require a drug test.  Typically I take a couple of days off of medication and there is no problem, however I am quite certain I have lost one offer due to a positive for amph (prescribed!). 

Now it would be all too easy for me to go off on a rant here about how the tests are unfair, generally useless, and treat ADHDers like dangerous criminals, but I rather hear from people who know the best way to handle the test(s).  In my one bad experience (and several annoying ones) policy is constructed such that one may not submit a counter positive proof at the time of the test, but take another test and wait for a MRO, during which time the employer may withdraw an offer for employment. 

Any consensus??