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4 May 2012If you work in a medical facility, perform employee screenings, or suspect that your child or teen may be abusing substances, you should know about saliva drug testing. This evaluation will help you to determine which drugs are in a person’s system, and some advanced tests can reveal how concentrated these substances are. Of course, [...]
If you suspect that your teenager is abusing drugs, your first reaction may be to confront your son or daughter angrily. This, of course, is rarely effective. Your next plan may be to order a drug testing kit from the Internet and randomly screen your teen for drugs. While this may make more sense than [...]
The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) had decided to begin drug testing their athletes beginning next year. It is known that since the 1960s drugs have had a presence in the surfing world. It is due to this, that debate over whether surfing is competitive or a creative outlet has been fought for numerous years. [...]
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23 Nov 2011Did you know that hair follicle drug testing is becoming increasingly popular within businesses and pre-employment public agencies? There have been instances where state and federal courts have used hair drug testing methods, and now some home drug testing kits are capable of offering hair drug testing. Here are some interesting facts on hair drug [...]
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21 Oct 2011We as a nation know the dangers of drunk driving, but what do we know about “drugged driving”? Drugged driving is considered to be anyone that is driving under the influence of any drug that impairs motor skills, reaction time and/or judgment. This is a huge concern because as is with drunk driving, not only [...]
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19 Oct 2011Substance abuse in schools interferes with a student’s ability to learn, disturbs the teaching environment, and also negatively affects other students. For these reasons some schools administer random student drug testing in the hopes to prevent drug abuse. There are two main reasons for this. The first one is that due to the randomness of [...]
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5 Sep 2011Out of the 400 chemicals found in marijuana, THC is the main active mind alternating chemical. THC has many effects such as lowering a persons perception, dry mouth, lose of coordination, poor balance, slow reaction time, and increase in heartbeat. It also expands blood vessels in the eyes, causing the user to have red eyes. [...]
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26 Aug 2011When cocaine enters the human body it is metabolized very rapidly and therefore cannot be measured by a routine screening. For this reason, benzoylecgonine levels are measured when conducting a urine drug test for the presence of cocaine. Benzoylecgonine is a metabolite of cocaine. The amount of time this metabolite has to be removed from [...]
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19 Aug 2011Marijuana breaks down into your system very rapidly. The active ingredient is Tetrahydrocannabinol- also known as THC. It can be detectable in the blood stream for only a few hours. The THC rapidly metabolizes into molecules known as metabolites which are then stored in body fat. The body releases the THC metabolites through urine and [...]
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