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How to Challenge an Employment Decision Based on Unapproved Hair Drug...
I. Introduction: What’s at Stake For nearly three decades, hair drug testing has quietly operated as a shadow policy tool across public and private employment sectors. Law enforcement agencies, hospitals, security contractors, transportation...
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When Science Becomes Policy Without Oversight — and People Pay the...
I. Introduction: The Power of Silence Public policy is not made only in hearings, courtrooms, or legislative chambers. It is also made in the quiet—through agency memos that never get drafted, rulemakings that never open, enforcement actions that...
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How FDA Inaction Enabled Decades of Unlawful Hair Testing
For more than three decades, both public agencies and private employers have relied on hair drug tests the federal government never actually authorized. These unapproved methods have determined who gets hired, who keeps their job, and...
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What an FDA Citizen Petition Really Means — and Why Job...
For years, both public agencies and private companies have quietly relied on drug testing methods the federal government never actually authorized. These unapproved practices have shut people out of jobs, cost workers their livelihoods, and evaded...
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Former NYPD Officer Files Citizen Petition Urging FDA Crackdown on Unlawful...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPetition challenges decades-long misuse of Psychemedics Corporation’s unvalidated drug testing on law enforcement officers and applicants, exposing regulatory gaps, racial disparities, and due-process violations.New...
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The Price of Exclusion: How the Affordable Care Act Left Undocumented...
I. Introduction — Exclusion by Design The promise of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was not simply to make health insurance more affordable; it was to transform the very structure of health care access in the United States. It was...
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