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Field guides, regulatory updates, and product breakdowns from the team behind American Screening Corporation's drug testing supplies.
What Happens If You Fail a Pre-Employment Drug Test: The Employer Process
A candidate takes a pre-employment drug test and the result is not a clean negative. What happens next is not a single event. It is a defined sequence with checkpoints, a medical...
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Does Fentanyl Show Up on a Standard Drug Test?
The short answer is no, not usually. A basic 5-panel or 10-panel drug test, the kind most employers, staffing agencies, and clinics have relied...
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EtG False Positives From Hand Sanitizer: What the Research Actually Shows
Someone in a monitoring program uses hand sanitizer a dozen times during a shift, gargles with mouthwash before a meeting, or drinks a bottle...
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Benzodiazepine Drug Test: BZO Panel Detection Times and Gaps
Benzodiazepines are not part of the core federal five panel drug test. Amphetamines, cocaine, marijuana, opiates, and phencyclidine make up that base panel, and...
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Amphetamine vs Methamphetamine Drug Test: How AMP and mAMP Panels Work
A urine drug screen that reports both amphetamine (AMP) and methamphetamine (mAMP) confuses a lot of people, including some employers who read the printout...
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TCA Drug Tests Explained: Why Tricyclic Antidepressants Appear on Screening Panels
A TCA drug test screens a urine specimen for tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline, nortriptyline, doxepin, and imipramine, typically at a 300 or 1,000...
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Does Suboxone Show Up on a Drug Test? Buprenorphine Panels Explained
In most cases, no. Suboxone's active ingredient, buprenorphine, is a synthetic opioid that standard 5 panel and 10 panel urine opiate screens are not...
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Drug Testing Programs for Staffing Agencies: Speed, Volume, and Client Requirements
A staffing agency drug testing program has to move as fast as the placement pipeline, because a candidate who is not cleared by the...
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Poppy Seeds and Drug Tests: The Science Behind Opiate False Positives
Yes, eating poppy seeds can trigger a positive opiate result on a urine drug screen, because raw poppy seeds retain trace morphine and codeine...
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Why Is PCP Still on Drug Test Panels? Detection, Cutoffs, and the Federal Five
PCP stays on federal and workplace drug test panels because it is one of the original five drug classes named in SAMHSA's Mandatory Guidelines...
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Does Oxycodone Show Up on a Drug Test? OXY Panels vs Standard Opiate Screens
Oxycodone does not reliably show up on a standard opiate (OPI) immunoassay screen, because that test is built to detect morphine and codeine, not...
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Drug Testing in Occupational Health Clinics: Building a Reliable Point of Care Program
An occupational health clinic builds a reliable drug testing program by splitting the book of business into two lanes: a non-DOT lane, where instant...
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Does MDMA Show Up on a Drug Test? Ecstasy Detection Windows and Panel Selection
Yes, MDMA can show up on a drug test, but only if the panel is configured to catch it. Standard five-panel amphetamine screens are...
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