Drug Testing

The slow arrival of specimen verification testing was a blessing to the drug testing industry. It's one thing to be able to catch cheaters - they could always catch cheaters but it cost too much money. But selling SVTs made catching…
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If time is short (as in “I have a drug test the day after tomorrow”), or if you are a somewhat heavyset daily weed smoker with an upcoming urinalysis, your best option to pass the test is the Substitution Method. This is when synthetic or…
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The U.S. Supreme Courts, citing a drug crisis that has reached "epidemic proportions", rules in favor of a Veronia, Washington School District law mandating mass urinalysis for all high school and junior high school athletes regardless of…
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Realizing that an impairment-free standard must be maintained for certain professions involving public safety, the American Civil Liberties Union suggests an alternative to urinalysis and hair testing is impairment testing. The ACLU…
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Congress requires random drug testing for any U.S. Worker in safety sensitive positions
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Blockbuster pays Pychemedics $790,000 for hair testing services.
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The Society of Forensic Toxicology conference produces a "consensus statement" which did not endorse the stand-alone use of hair analysis and concludes that hair analysis was not sufficiently developed for use in forensic circumstances…
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In a landmark case, Judge Jack Weinstein, who participated in the SOFT conference earlier that year delared in U.S. v. Medina (1990) 749 F.Supp.59 (E.D N.Y.) that the Society’s expressed scientific cautions - centering around the…
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Corporate drug testing has burgeoned. Ninety-eight percent of the Fortune 200 companies have implemented some form of drug testing. However, a positive drug test still does not indicate whether an employee is impaired or intoxicated on the…
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Pharmaceutical giant Hoffman-la Roche launches a nationwide program called "Corporate Initiatives for a Drug-Free Workplace" to motivate corporate leaders to implement practical drug abuse policies and programs in their companies. Roche is…
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