Many job prospects simply walk rather than take the drug test

Three jobs ago it was a cup. Two jobs ago I had to take a TB test. The most recent job required a swab from the cheek inside the mouth. It reminded me of going to the dentist.

Thirty years ago and a few times since I have put ink on my finger tips and given prints. I've had my photo taken, background examined, and finances reviewed.

I've submitted to these various checks.

But I wonder, is there something I said on the playground in the fifth grade lurking somewhere? And what happens if I tell someone I still pray? PB
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From the New York Times online:

[Savannah, GA]  A few years back, the heavy-equipment manufacturer JCB held a job fair in the glass foyer of its sprawling headquarters near here, but when a throng of prospective employees learned the next step would be drug testing, an alarming thing happened: About half of them left.

That story still circulates within the business community of this historic port city. But the problem has gotten worse...

Data on the scope of the problem is sketchy because figures on job applicants who test positive for drugs miss the many people who simply skip tests they cannot pass.

...Quest Diagnostics, which has compiled employer-testing data since 1988, documented an increase for a second consecutive year in the percentage of American workers who tested positive for illicit drugs — to 4.7 percent in 2014 from 4.3 percent in 2013. And 2013 was the first year in a decade to show an increase...
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Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/business/hiring-hurdle-finding-workers-who-can-pass-a-drug-test.html