Archive for December, 2008
NCAA Drug Testing – The Right Thing To Do
In today’s society with all the performance enhancing drugs available, it is nice to see the ncaa drug testing college athletes. It is time that we get a handle on it and offer help, education, and the resources to help our youth of tomorrow. It is sad to see so many professional athletes taking drugs [...]
Why Is Hair Follicle Drug Testing Better?
Hair follicle drug testing is a new alternative to urine testing which is more reliable is easier to conduct. Unlike urine drug testing where the collection of the sample requires privacy and thus promotes a multitude of evasion methods. Hair follicle drug testing is much more reliable since it goes back up to 90 days [...]
Researches on Saliva Drug Testing
A huge amount of research has gone into the development of saliva drug testing methods. The methodologies used continue to evolve as a result of all this research resulting in more accurate and reliable tests. Saliva drug testing has its obvious advantages but unfortunately, it is not the final solution and it does have its [...]
Pros and Cons of Drug Testing Methods
All the methods of drug testing have their own benefits as well as limitations. Hence, the choice of drug test depends entirely upon the requirement of the person, let us see commonly used testing types Urine Benefits: A urine drug test can be undertaken at the laboratory or at any other place, with the help [...]
A Look at Hair Drug Testing
Drug testing has become very common in both the workplace and schools within the last twenty years or so. Generally, urine testing is the most common form of drug screening. Many people are creative in their efforts to beat drug tests and have formulated many products to mask the appearance of drugs in the system. [...]
All You Need to Know about Marijuana Drug Screening & THC Drug Testing
Marijuana is an illicit substance taken most often by means of smoking. A cigarette rolled with marijuana is called a joint. A cigar rolled with marijuana is called a blunt. The drug can also be smoke through a pipe or a bong. Regardless of how marijuana is taken, it is harmful to the body, impairs [...]
Home Drug Testing: An Overview
The past 20 years or so have seen a large increase in drug testing in the workplace and elsewhere. This testing has usually taken place in a laboratory setting; home drug testing is a relatively new phenomenon. With increased demand for pre-employment and random drug screening of employees came a huge market for home drug [...]
Hair Drug Test And Its Validity
Drug tests are performed to determine whether a certain drug, or any of its metabolized traces, exists in a body part or product of a person. A hair drug test is conducted to determine the presence (or absence) of a particular drug in the hair samples of a subject. The primary significance of a hair [...]
Should You Be Drug Testing Your Teen? Pros and Cons
We as parents desperately want to protect our kids from the dangers of drugs and alcohol, and we know that the years of adolescence are a time of experimentation, and a time when as much as we’d like to, we can’t always believe everything our children tell us. Drug tests promise us the peace of [...]
The Future Of Drug Testing – Hair Sampling
One may consider the hair as a person’s crowning glory. In fact, most people spend hours in front of the mirror fixing their hair. Aside from making each one of us look good, the hair has yet another function you might be interested in. In today’s modern world, there comes another way of detecting drugs [...]