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Field guides, regulatory updates, and product breakdowns from the team behind American Screening Corporation's drug testing supplies.
Nursing Home Employee Drug Testing: A Guide for Long Term Care Facilities
Skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, and other long term care settings carry a combination of risk factors that few other workplaces share. Staff have routine, often unsupervised access to controlled substances....
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What Oxidant Activity Means on a Drug Test
Urine specimen testing is one of the most common methods of drug screening utilized today. However, this testing is not entirely foolproof in nature....
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The Different Types of Medical Protective Glasses
Risking something as precious as your eyesight is one you should never do, no matter what is at stake. Thousands of eye injuries occur...
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The Different Types of Forceps
Surgical instruments have been around since the dawn of time. A variety of medical tools were developed early on in ancient and medieval times...
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What It Means When a Mouth Swab Drug Test Turns Blue
Mouth swab drug test turns blue indicates that the saliva drug test kit has collected enough oral fluid to do the drug test. Oral...
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The Basics of What Point of Care Testing Is
What if healthcare testing could be done instantly, right at a patient’s side? Actually, it already can. Point-of-care testing, aka PoCT or POCT, refers...
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Whats on a 13-Panel Drug Test
The term “panel” generally refers to the specific drug or family of drugs for which the test is screening. The main difference between panels...
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What a 5-Panel Drug Test Tests For
For employers, the value and importance of drug screening employees have been evident for several decades. Productivity by means of drug testing is a...
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Reasonable Suspicion Drug Testing: A Supervisor's Guide
If your business has a strong commitment to a drug-free environment outlined within a written policy or drug-free workplace program, then you know the...
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What Blood Spot Tests Are Used for
Dried blood spot testing, aka DBS, is a simple and inexpensive collection technology. This method features many advantages over more conventional sampling techniques, as...
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The Different Drug Abbreviations in Drug Testing
From a business standpoint, drug tests are necessary for providing information about an individual’s substance use or abuse. While drug screenings are common for...
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How To Implement Drug Testing in the Workplace
Workers under the influence are a direct danger to themselves and others. Hence, employers across the nation desire the best protection for their company...
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Everything You Need To Know About Federal Drug Testing Laws
One of the most prominent issues that employers face across a multitude of industries is knowing how to deal with drug testing, and understanding...
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