Question

The Rehabilitation Act of 1973:

a. requires all employers with 20 or more workers to take affirmative steps to employ the handicapped.

b. has been recently amended to categorically remove those with AIDS from its protection.

c. states that a person addicted to cigarette smoking s handicapped under the Act.

d. does not consider drug and alcohol abuse handicapping conditions for the purposes of the statute.

Answer 1

D. Does not consider drug and alcohol abuse handicapping conditions for the purposes of the statute.

The rehabilitation act, 1973 protects handicapped from discrimination basically. The act defines the handicap as "someone who is not able to perform one or more major life activities due to physical or mental impairment. "as per the act, the rehabilitation act of 1973.

And it doesn't consider drugs or alcohol abuse handicapping conditions and hence option D.