There are hundreds of cases of drug abuse in the USA. Illicit drugs, prescription drugs, and alcohol are the most abused substances in the United States today. Various tests to find such addictive substances in the human body use different sources, like blood, saliva, and hair, to analyze and detect chemicals in them. While these tests are quite accurate, they take a long time to complete. Urine tests, such as the 10-panel drug test, are faster and more commonly used.
Let us learn more about the 10-panel drug test.
What is the 10-Panel Drug Test?
The 10-panel test is used to detect drugs in a person’s urine. As the name suggests, it can help find ten drugs—street drugs (illicit or illegal drugs)--and some abused prescription medications.
What are the Drugs it Can Detect?
The ten drugs, their derivatives (oils and resins), their common names, and detection times are:
1. Cocaine- To be detected in two to ten days.
Cocaine: coke, powder, snow, blow, bump
Crack cocaine: candy, rocks, hard rock, nuggets
2. Marijuana (THC)-
Marijuana
Hashish
Extracts including THC oil, wax, and glass
3. Amphetamines- To be detected in two days.
Amphetamine sulfate: speed, whizz, gooey
Methamphetamine: crank, crystal, meth, crystal meth, rock, ice
Dexamphetamine and drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy: doxies, Ritalin, Adderall, Vyvanse, Focalin, Concerta
4. Cannabis- To be detected in three to thirty days depending on the usage frequency.
Marijuana: weed, dope, pot, grass, herb, ganja
Hashish and hashish oil (hash)
Synthetic cannabinoids: synthetic marijuana, spice, K2
5. Opioids- To be detected in one to three days.
Heroin: smack, junk, brown sugar, dope, H, train, hero
Smoked opium
Morphine
Oxycodone
Opium: O, big O, dopium, Chinese tobacco
Codeine: Captain Cody, Cody, lean, sizzurp, purple drank
Hydrocodone
Morphine: Miss Emma, cube juice, hocus, Lydia, mud
6. Barbiturates- To be detected in two to fifteen days.
Amobarbital: downers, blue velvet
Pentobarbital: yellow jackets, nembies
Phenobarbital: goofballs, purple hearts
Secobarbital: red, pink ladies, red devils
Tuinal: double trouble, rainbows
7. Benzodiazepines- To be detected in two to ten days.
Lorazepam: Ativan
Chlordiazepoxide: Librium
Alprazolam: Xanax
Diazepam: Valium
8. Other individual drugs-
Phencyclidine (PCP): To be detected in eight days.
Methaqualone: To be detected in ten to fifteen days.
Methadone: To be detected in two to seven days.
Propoxyphene: To be detected in two days.
What are the Drugs it Can Detect?
The type of drug used.
Dosage of the drug
The metabolic rate of the person
Usage frequency
What are the Expected Results?
Positive: Getting a positive result suggests the presence of at least one drug out of the ten. GC/MS is usually used to confirm the positive. If the positive is for prescription drugs, the employer might want confirmation from your doctor.
Negative: It suggests that the person is either entirely clean or the concentration of the drugs is negligible.
Inconclusive: When the test was unsuccessful because of the corrupted sample.
About American Screening Corp-
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