Drug Testing Articles

It’s incredibly easy to pass a urine test. Simply put, don’t use drugs. Over 95% of our nation’s workforce agrees. It’s the little over 4% who test positive for using drugs who hope to find a way to dupe employers by falsifying a drug test. A quick online search results in page after page of Read more »

It was your fledgling company’s first positive drug test result. After the DIY drug test actually read positive, you followed the state protocol and took the employee’s specimen to a lab for retesting. You even drove it to the lab yourself! You waited to terminate the guy after receiving their positive result. Who knew days Read more »

Over-the-counter (OTC) home drug tests are found in department stores, pharmacies, online, and you may even find one at the local quick store. Whether or not they are as accurate as laboratory testing is questionable though. They employ the pass or fail method of testing for drugs in the system. Laboratories utilize sophisticated equipment to Read more »

If you’re considering implementing a drug-free or zero-tolerance protocol, you may be considering which testing method to use. How long it takes to administer a drug test may be one of the questions you’d like answered. Employee drug testing is an important element in promoting workplace safety. Some employees view it as if their employer Read more »

More employers are taking a second look at the hair drug test when considering employee drug testing. It may not be the most cost-effective, but the advantage of knowing if your employee has used drugs in the past 90 days gives cause to take notice of it. In fact, the DOT (Department of Transportation) is Read more »

Crystal meth is merely a crystallized form of methamphetamine. Manufactured in clandestine, often portable, labs across the country, the ingredients include common household items and over-the-counter-cold medications. Known as “Poor Man’s Cocaine,” manufacturing this illicit drug is hazardous to those making it and to residents in the neighborhood where it’s being made as well. Hazardous Read more »

Although its medical use was discontinued long ago, drug abusers still obtain PCP on the black market. Used for its mind-altering effects, drug abusers experience a high that lasts up to eight hours. Drug tests pick up on PCP use much longer though. It remains in the user’s system up to ninety days. Overall, the Read more »

Employers seeking the safest work environment possible have a drug free protocol in place, but what drugs do drug tests look for? Basically, the broad range answer is all of them. Drug tests have the ability to incorporate all types of drugs. However unless regulated by the DOT or some other entity, the employer chooses Read more »