Reply #8: the psych already knows about the M use. Apparently thats why.

[TawanaNBD]

Apparently that's why he's now ordering "random" drug testing, because he knows this ONE person is using marijuana? That doesn't sound random, that sounds discriminatory...like if he just found out she was also smoking pot and then all of a sudden "random" drug testing is being instituted? Is that what happened or am I misreading this?

As a medical transcriptionist, I can tell you that the medical establishment is VERY squirrelly about drugs. For instance, if you are in horrible back pain and go somewhere asking for a specific drug, like codeine for example, you are very likely to get flagged as a "drug-seeker." When in reality you just might have been having this pain your entire life and know what works for it.

But back to the subject, I'd be VERY curious as to whether this <cough> "random" testing was only initiated after your friend spilled the beans. Or rather, the leaves. :) If so, I'd pursue legal action or just find a new, and hopefully better, doctor. I myself would probably just switch doctors...NOT give my new doctor any info about or from the old one (avoiding any risk that doc #1 would blab to doc #2 about this marijuana "problem" of mine)...and learn my lesson and keep my mouth shut about any other drugs I was taking for all the rest of eternity.

Incidentally, a friend of mine has ADD. Pot and Prozac were the only two things she found that kept her somewhat calm--and the pot had a LOT fewer side effects than the Prozac...but she made the same mistake as your friend and got the same answer. Nonono, don't ask/don't tell...unless you really know and trust that s/he is cool. Doctors are understandably worried about drug interactions and one drug masking another, etc., but they also aren't living inside YOUR brain and having to cope with your daily life and/or misery.