In the Skinner and Von Raab decisions, the Court upheld drug testing of railroad and customs employees without warrants, probable cause, or individualized suspicion. These decisions signified the Court's readiness to abandon its presumed role of dispassionate arbiter and to join the legislative and executive branches in the crusade to eliminate the drug problem. Although eliminating drug abuse from the welfare population is a worthy goal, achieving it by means of wholesale drug testing may exact an undesirable toll from society. It would produce a class of desperate, addicted individuals while undermining our common belief in the inviolability of constitutional guarantees. Footnotes