Archive for March, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dragging Employees Thru Drug Testing
All employers are threatened of being sued at any time for cause or made up claims. Lawyers are indeed the new terrorists of the twenty first century. It is for this reason that all employers have to watch and monitor their workers at all times. This includes testing them to make sure that they are [...]
Job Application and Drug Testing
As filling out a job application, some companies require drug testing. It is not enough anymore to provide them with all kinds of personal information. Now they also want you to urinate in a cup. To a certain extent I understand the need for all of this personal information, but having an actual biological sample [...]
How to Perform Drug Test Using Urine Samples
Conducting a urine drug test requires four steps: collection, screening, confirmation, and review. Urine samples are commonly used to test the presence of various drugs in a person’s system because such testing is simple and mostly reliable. Not to mention, urine tests are much cheaper than other kinds – lab technicians usually aren’t required. Likewise, [...]
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 [...]
All You Need to Know about Hair Follicle Drug Testing
Hair sample drug testing is a great way to detect whether or not a person has used drugs in the past 90 days. Whether in an office format or in the home, hair drug testing serves the purpose of answering questions about an individual’s drug use history. How Does Hair Follicle Drug Testing Work? Hair [...]