Drug Testing

I am not a cheat. I am not a liar. But I've come to believe that there is nothing wrong with cheating on my drug test, I finally got a good job when my daughter was two years old and things were chugging along nicely until one day the…
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I am not a cheat. I am not a liar. But I've come to believe that there is nothing wrong with cheating on my drug test, I finally got a good job when my daughter was two years old and things were chugging along nicely until one day the…
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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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When I first started writing critically about drug testing in 2005 it was like shooting fish in a barrel. During the second Bush Administration workplace drug tests prospered mightily under federal grants even though the technology…
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There is so little common sense in workplace drug testing that when an unlikely outbreak of smart ideas occur it should be noted. Until 2016 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) agreed that employers would be smart to…
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It sounds counterintuitive, but legalized adult-use and medicalized cannabis means more drug testing down the road… And that might be a good thing.
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The drug test companies maintain that the reliability of their tests has improved dramatically over the last decade, but I'm not sure I believe that. After all, these are the same folks who lied about the quality of urine testing in the…
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So, you have to take a drug test. Well, you’re not alone. Up to 50 million drug tests are performed in the United States every year and that number is only going to increase in the near future. The vast majority of those are private sector…
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Here's a Fun Fact: Workplace drug tests typically do not detect the presence of drugs; they detect the presence of drug metabolites which are the waste products of the drugs you ingest after they have been metabolized through your system.…
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