Dec 22

Why Detox Drinks for Drug Tests Are a Waste of Money

A good expose of the detox drink scam for passing drug tests.

Detox drinks contain mainly water and some creatine to help you retain that water.  If you want to try to scam the drug testing by diluting your urine sample, just drink water!  Save your money for the rehab you’re going to need later.

While diluting your urine may work for some of the older labs, many labs are updating their testing facilities and procedures.  How well do you know the lab doing the testing?  Probably not at all.  Is it worth the risk?  No.

This assumes that your employer is still doing urine sample drug testing.  Many employers are switching to either saliva sampling or hair analysis for their drug testing.  These tests are a lot harder to fool.  Click on these links to learn more about hair drug testing and saliva drug testing.

Good luck!

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Dec 10


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Dec 8

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Which 5 panel drug test for at home drug tests is the best value for your money?

Let’s take a look at two types of  home drug testing kits available from Test Country with 5 panels or more.  A panel is simple a single test for a specific drug test.  For example, a one panel drug test might only test for cocaine.  A two panel home drug testing kit might test for cocaine and ecstasy.

You can click on any of the links at any time to purchase.

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This is actually a 7 panel drug test that can screen for marijuana, methamphetamine, amphetamine,  ecstasy, cocaine, opiates such as heroin and phencyclidine.  Hair sample drug tests are the gold standard of drug testing because they can reveal drug use over time.  Other methods can only track more recent drug use.  However, hair drug test samples must be sent to an outside lab, unlike other types of at home drug testing that can give you instant results in the privacy of your own home.

The price is around $60-80, depending on the number of repeat tests you would like to have.

Unlike hair sample drug tests, urinalysis drug testing or saliva drug tests are available in a 5 panel drug test format at a much cheaper price.  These at home drug tests start at $6.  But apart from the price and the fact that these are instant drug tests, both saliva drug tests and urinalysis drug testing have one major drawback – they require the cooperation of the test subject.  This is fine if you are testing yourself, or if you are an employer with a mandatory drug testing policy.  But if you are a parent who is worried their child is taking drugs, this may be a problem.

To get more information on any of the at home drug testing kits available in the 5 panel drug test format, please click on the image below.

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Dec 7

ScienceDaily (2009-11-17) — Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug by adolescents, with almost 42 percent of high school seniors admitting to having experimented with it. Many studies have focused on parents as being the best avenue for preventing adolescent marijuana use; however, the strength of the relationship between monitoring and marijuana usage has been unclear. According to a meta-analysis, there is in a fact a strong, reliable link between parental monitoring and decreased marijuana usage in adolescents.

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Dec 7

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In order to ensure that relapses are not happening, biweekly drug tests are mandatory for nurses after completing drug rehab and the cost of those tests as well as the corresponding clinical evaluations fall upon the nurse. …

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Dec 7

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Increased awareness is key to drug free environment, which makes employees understand the magnitude of destruction caused due to drug abuse at workplace. Periodic drug abuse testing increases awareness levels. Drug tests detect the drug …

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Dec 2

Drug testing labs provide accurate results for drug tests in a short period of time. Oftentimes, companies require lab drug tests in order to maintain a safe and healthy work environment for their employees.

Why Are Drug Testing Labs Used?

A drug testing facility is used to detect the use of drugs in the workplace, the home and even in law enforcement. Many times, employers will require a testing lab test prior to hiring as a sort of screening. Also, parents may send a sample to a drug test facility in order to discover whether or not their teen is abusing drugs. Testing labs are available in many different forms including urine testing, saliva testing, sweat testing and hair testing. After a sample is collected from a donor, the sample is then sent to a testing facility and tested for traces of illicit substances.

How Accurate Are Drug Test Facilities?

Drug test facilities provide the most accurate of drug testing options on the market today. However, many on site testing products are equaling lab test quality, making for a more price conscious and convenient option for businesses and families who wish to utilize testing.

Pros and Cons of Home and Lab Drug Testing

Deciding between using a testing lab or a instant testing kit can be difficult. Many different factors should be weighed, including the level of required accuracy and reliability, the rate at which results are produced, sample collection and cost. A testing facility will typically cost much more than an instant testing kit, although its accuracy is often guaranteed. Regardless of the testing method used, once a sample is collected, it can be tested immediately with an on site drug test, whereas a test facility will require the sample to be sent to the lab-a process which could take up to a week or more.

All in all, on site testing is more effective for the average consumer to use. Businesses can save large amounts of money when buying home drug test kits through corporate bulk accounts and are still guaranteed a high level of accuracy.

Worried parents who fret over their teen’s potential abuse of drugs can use at home drug testing kits to find out whether or not they are using on the spot. Waiting for a drug testing lab to return results can be excruciating, especially when it is your child’s health and wellbeing at stake. While a testing facility may be the most accurate and reliable form of drug testing, home testing kits provide a reliable alternative that save consumers and businesses money, while protecting families and employees alike from the hazards of drug abuse

Information about this article can be found at Find Drug Testing Lab Facilities The article is prepared by Serhat Pala who runs the website TestCountry.com

Some of the information used in this article are taken from: Workplace & Employee Drug Testing

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Dec 1

Drug users may know the medical risks but they tend to ignore the legal risks involved. Teenagers especially do not have a fully developed brain that can evaluate the dangers of drug abuse. That’s where home drug tests can be used to protect our children from these risks.

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Meanwhile, in the “tell me something I don’t know” department:

Drug users are well informed about the harms associated with the drugs they use, and perceive alcohol and tobacco to be amongst the most dangerous substances, according to a survey by UCL (University College London) and Imperial College London researchers. The findings, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, suggest that the current system of classifying psychoactive drugs in the UK may need to be revisited….

Drug users were asked to rate twenty psychoactive substances on a ‘rational’ scale previously developed by Professor David Nutt, Imperial College London, who collaborated on this study. Heroin, crack and cocaine topped the list in terms of harm, but alcohol was rated fifth, solvents seventh and tobacco ninth. Ecstasy came 13th in the harm rating, LSD 16th and cannabis 18th. Thus, the survey found no relationship between the drug’s legal status, based on the current classification system, and users’ ratings of harm….

Dr Celia Morgan, UCL Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, says: “Given that the Misuse of Drugs Act aims to signal to young people the harmfulness of drugs, this suggests a flaw with the current classification of drugs. We found that drug users rated legal substances such as alcohol and tobacco as more harmful than Class A substances like LSD and ecstasy. We found a high correlation between harm ratings by users and those made previously by scientific experts across all substances, suggesting users are well informed about the harms of drugs.”

Those pesky well-informed drug users, blowing the curve for everybody else…

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Nov 30

via drug tests – Google Blog Search by Sheri on 11/30/09


There was a time when drug testing was conducted on potential employees prior to hiring. This was thought to be the extent of efforts required by many companies. As times have changed, however, and more business owners are finding they …

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Nov 20

saliva Oral drug tests use a swab of saliva taken from the test subject’s mouth as a sample to test for the presence of drugs.  Because they are simple to adminster and much more diffcult to falsify than some other methods of drug testing such as urine analysis, oral drug tests are becoming very popular.
This is especially true for employers. schools, the military and law enforcement.  Reasons for testing can include pre-employment testing, on the job randomized testing, post-incident testing where drugs could be a factor, reasonable suspicion cases where behavior indicates a potential problem, and return-to-duty testing.
Random testing is the most effective type of drug testing because a random test gives the test subject little time or opportunity to evade the test procedure.  Saliva based tests are perfect for random drug testing.  They are quick, easy to administer, and not as invasive as other methods of testing that require urine, blood or hair sampling.
The results of oral drug tests are very close to those of drug tests performed with blood samples without the need for painful procedures.  It is especially useful in the discovery of very recent drug use (on the job for example) and in situations where you want to know what the degree of intoxication is (at the scene of a car accident for example).

Detection Times for Saliva Based Oral Drug Tests
  • Marijuana & Hashish: One to 24 hours
  • Cocaine & Crack: From the moment of ingestion to 72 hours
  • Opiates such as heroin: From ingestion to 72 hours
  • Methamphetamine and ecstasy: From ingestion to 96 hours
  • Benzodiazepines:  From ingestion to 72 hours
  • Amphetamines: Immediately
  • Phencyclidine (PCP): Immediately
Disadvantages of Oral Drug Tests

  • Not all drugs are screened with saliva based testing.
  • Saliva type oral drug tests are not approved for use with the DOT Federal Mandated Drug Testing.
  • Bio-Hazard warning: as with all bodily fluids, care should be taken to handle the saliva sample with care although saliva is not considered a bio-hazard unless it is contaminated with blood.
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