Posted on November 22, 2009Know About Opiate Drug Testing
Opiates are one of the most addictive drugs with sedative and analgesic effects, which depress the central nervous system. According to the TEDS report, opiates are the primary substance of abuse and accounted for almost one-fifth (19 percent) of all...
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Posted on November 20, 2009Know About Opiate Drug Testing
Opiates are one of the most addictive drugs with sedative and analgesic effects, which depress the central nervous system. According to the TEDS report, opiates are the primary substance of abuse and accounted for almost one-fifth (19 percent) of all...
Posted on November 5, 2009Know About Cannabis Drug Testing
Cannabis (marijuana) is one of the highly addictive illicit drugs of abuse in the United States. According to National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), there were about 2.2 million persons aged 12 or older who used marijuana for the first time...
Posted on October 23, 2009Know About One Step Cocaine Test
Cocaine is one of the most powerful and extremely addictive drugs that affect the brain directly. Cocaine is a schedule-II drug as it has high potential for abuse and addiction.
Posted on October 9, 2009Know About Ten Panel Integrated E-Z Split Key Cup Test
Drug abuse is posing a great threat not only to drug abusers but also to the whole society, as it is affecting people of all ages and groups. According to a report by National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), nearly 20.1 million Americans aged...
Posted on September 12, 2009How to Conduct One Step Benzodiazepines Test
Benzodiazepines are drugs generally prescribed in treatment for over anxiety and sleep disorders. They are also classified as minor tranquilizers, as they slow down the central nervous system's activity.
Posted on September 12, 2009Know About One Step Multi-Drug Screen Test
Drug abuse is a major issue as many people irrespective of age and gender are getting addicted to illicit drugs. According to NSDUH 2007, 114 million Americans of 12 years and above, accounting 46% of the population reported drug abuse at least once...
Posted on September 4, 2009How to Take OrAlert Oral Test
Saliva drug test or Oral drug test is the ideal for drug testing at both home and work place. These tests are equivalent to urine drug test in accuracy, process, quick results etc. This is an efficient form of drug testing and enables to employ the...
Posted on August 31, 2009Know About Marijuana Drug Test
Marijuana is known to be one of the most widely abused illegal drugs in the U.S. Marijuana is mostly abused through smoking using cigarettes, blunts, pipes, bowls, etc. Marijuana can also be ingested orally, mixed in food or brewed as tea. Marijuana...
Posted on August 20, 2009Know How Nicotine Test Is Conducted
Nicotine test gives the levels of nicotine addiction or abuse in a person. The drug Nicotine is one of the regularly abused and commercially available drugs in the society. Apart from tobacco smoking, nicotine is also available in forms of nicotine...
Posted on August 13, 2009Drug Testing for Heroin
Heroin is popular among high school and college grads. According to the Monitoring The Future study, 1.3% of the 8th grade students abused heroin in their past lifetime, and .8% in the past year, and .4% in the past month. The percentages were much...
Posted on August 1, 2009Know About Cocaine Drug Testing
Cocaine is highly addictive drug of abuse. A recent NIDA survey stated that, approximately one in six Americans (15% in 2007), by the age of 30 tried cocaine. Cocaine directly affects brain and causes many health problems like heart attack,...
Posted on August 1, 2009Know About Cocaine Drug Testing
Cocaine is highly addictive drug of abuse. A recent NIDA survey stated that, approximately one in six Americans (15% in 2007), by the age of 30 tried cocaine. Cocaine directly affects brain and causes many health problems like heart attack,...
Posted on July 28, 2009Know About Alcohol Saliva Test
The fact that nearly half of the automobile and industrial accidents are associated with alcohol abuse in the United States stresses the need to check alcohol abuse at all levels. Alcohol saliva test is one of the common methods used at schools,...
Posted on July 18, 2009Advantages of Saliva Drug Testing
Saliva drug testing is a convenient method of drug screening and an effective alternative for urine drug testing. Collecting sample for saliva drug test is a straightforward process and can be done in less time.
Posted on July 11, 2009How Alcohol and Marijuana Abuse Impacts Adolescence
Adolescence is a crucial stage for physical and mental human development. An adolescent brain has increased desire of knowledge and exploration. At the same time it is highly vulnerable to high-risk behaviors, mental illness, and addiction....
Posted on July 4, 2009How Effective Are Home Drug Test Kits
Home drug testing kits are effective tools that help parents to confirm drug abuse in their children. Most of the times, home drug test kits help parents to identify drug abuse of their children in early stages and prevent them from facing future...
Posted on June 27, 2009Detecting Cocaine Abuse with Drug Test Kits
Cocaine is one of the most powerful addictive drugs of abuse. According to a recent survey from NIDA, around one in six Americans (15% in 2007), by the age of 30, have tried cocaine. Cocaine can directly affect brain and has serious impact on health...
Posted on June 27, 2009The Impact of Marijuana on a Teen’s Life
Marijuana is considered as one of the most commonly used illicit drug by teens. According to a report released by US government in May 2008, around 35% of the 2 million depressed teens used an illicit drug (including marijuana) in 2007. Another 18%...
Posted on June 8, 2009How Long Do Drugs Stay Inside A Human System?
It is important to know the detection period of the drug tests and the tenure of the drugs residing in the human system when testing for drug abuse. This makes the drug test more effective in avoiding the risks of false detection and reduces the acts...
Posted on June 7, 2009How Compatible Is Saliva Drug Testing At Workplace
Drug abuse has become a common problem even in the official places like offices, schools, and other organizations. Drug abuse in the work places not only affects the health and work of the abused, but also the work of his colleagues. In such...
Posted on June 6, 2009Comparison Of Urine And Saliva Drug Tests
The major difference between different types of drug tests is the collection of specimen. But the advantages and disadvantages of these distinct drug tests vary in terms of many issues like invasiveness in specimen collection, risk of tampering the...
Posted on June 6, 2009Know About Heroin Abuse
Heroin is a semi-synthetic opioid manufactured from morphine. This drug is originally extracted from the seed of opium poppy plant, and uses as both painkiller and recreational drug. It is illegal to manufacture and to sell in the U.S., but in some...
Posted on June 6, 2009Myths and Facts about Using Breathalyzers
A Breathalyzer is a device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample. Law enforcement officers often use breathalyzers to test the level of alcohol concentration in a person’s blood. This is an effective tool to detect people...
Posted on June 5, 2009Facts about Methadone
Methadone is a synthetic opiod, rigorously used as a pain reliever and in treating addiction to narcotics. In the case of morphine or heroin abuse, methadone occupies the opiod receptor in the brain and stabilizes it against the addiction to those...
Posted on June 5, 2009Comparison of Hair Drug Testing With Saliva Drug Testing
An examination of specimen to detect specific drug presence or to determine prior drug abuse is known as drug test. Several methods have been developed to trace drug presence. Among those Hair and Saliva drug testing methods have emerged rapidly and...
Posted on June 3, 2009Vicodin – Abuse and Effects
Vicodin is a combination of acetaminophen, and hydrocodone in a tablet form. It is a painkiller used to get relief from moderate to severe pain. According to National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2007, approximately 50 million Americans of age 12 or...
Posted on June 1, 2009Know About Cotinine Drug Testing
Cotinine is a metabolic of nicotine, used to measure the grade of tobacco smoking. According to National Survey On Drug Use 2007, overall 68 million people abuse tobacco, and more than 3.5 million teens abuse tobacco between 12-17 years. Detection of...
Posted on May 30, 2009Facts about Drug Abuse and Addiction
Drugs are the chemicals, which have susceptible impact on neuro-chemical balance of human brain that effects feelings and actions of an individual. Abusing drugs often or regularly leads to addiction. Although there is no particular age limit for...
Posted on February 4, 2009Know About Fatal Club Drugs
Club drugs are psychoactive compounds that are abused by teens and young adults at night clubs, raves or trance scenes. These drugs became popular first in UK in 1970. According to MTF survey 2007, 0.7% students abused GHB, 1% abused Ketamine, and...
Posted on February 4, 2009Myths and Facts about Methamphetamine Abuse and Treatment
Methamphetamine is similar to that of amphetamine drugs, most commonly known as "˜chalk' and "˜meth'. These drugs rapidly mix up with bloodstream by smoking, injecting, snorted, absorbed through patch when abused. Powerful effects on central nervous...
Posted on January 31, 2009Things to Know For Student Drug Testing
Many schools are using student drug testing as part of their regular activities. According to Ring Walt survey May 2008, a 16.5% of U.S. school districts have adopted/implemented student random illicit drug testing programs. Schools are conducting...
Posted on December 30, 2008Benefits of CLIA Waived Drug Tests
CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment) Act was established in 1988 to set high quality laboratory testing methods to ensure accurate, reliable, timely test results etc. CLIA has categorized laboratory testing based on the test complexity of...
Posted on November 30, 2008Effects of PCP Drug Abuse
Phencyclidine (phenylcyclohexylpiperidine) commonly initialized as PCP is a disseminative drug, which means that by consuming this drug mind feels separated from the body. PCP was illegally manufactured in labs and sold out in form of tablets from...
Posted on November 28, 2008Inhalants Abuse - Effects on Health
Abuse of any drug has negative effects on both physical and mental health of drug abuser. Inhalants are non-medical drugs like alcohol, Cocaine etc, and they present in sprays, liquid cleaners, which are commonly available at home and workplaces.
Posted on November 2, 2008Know About Specimen Validity Test and Adulterants Tested In It
Specimen validity testing refers to the tests conducted by laboratories to determine if a urine specimen is diluted, adulterated or substituted. Prior to urine drug testing, specimen validity test is conducted to know whether the specimen is tampered...
Posted on October 8, 2008Why to Choose Instant Drug Testing Kits
Instant drug testing kits are used to get accurate and instant results with less cost. Instant drug testing kits are very simple and easy to perform. Even an individual can perform the test independently. They deliver accurate results instantly at...
Posted on September 14, 2008Different Types Of Alcohol Testing
Alcohol tests are conducted to know whether the person has consumed alcohol or not. Alcohol testing is conducted in different ways using urine, blood, saliva and breathe specimens. Every test has its own importance and advantages of using it. Results...
Posted on September 4, 2008Urine Drug Test - Detection Period And Cutoff Levels Of Drugs
Urinalysis is the most common test type for drug testing. Detection of a drug in the specimen is mostly dependent on the detection period and the cutoff levels. Detection period means up to how many days the drug testing can reveal the presence of...
Posted on August 15, 2008Amphetamines- The Effects of Its Abuse
Amphetamine is the collective term for several substances including amphetamine sulphate, laevoamphetamine (Benzedrine), dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), and methamphetamine (Methedrine). Amphetamines are produced from a colorless oil base which is...
Posted on August 4, 2008Tricyclic Drug Test To Find Suicidal Tendency
Presence of Tricyclic Antidepressant (TCA) in more quantity provokes individuals to commit suicide. TCA has much impact on normal person than a depressed individual. TCA causes sleepiness, difficulty in concentration and thinking and unsteady gait in...
Posted on July 12, 2008Benefits Of On-site Drug Testing
On-site drug test is one which gives quick results on the spot. It is less intrusive compared to laboratory drug test. On-site drug test is usually used by people who take a drug test at home, at work places or educational institutions.
Posted on July 3, 2008Saliva Drug Test Efficient In Finding Current Drug Abuse
Saliva drug testing is being considered as one of the popular drug tests that are used to find instant drug abuse. Saliva drug finds its major utility in the corporates and institutes, where drug testing of many people is required in a short time.
Posted on June 7, 2008Reasons For The Growth of Prescription Drug Abuse
In 2006, 16.2 million Americans age 12 and older had taken a prescription pain reliever, tranquilizer, stimulant, or sedative for non-medical purposes at least once in the year according to SAMHSA. The drug abuse of medications is clearly growing...
Posted on May 18, 2008Effects of Common Club Drugs on Users
Club drugs have become the drugs of choice at night parties and the rave culture. According to the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), club drugs usually involve multiple substances, such as marijuana, cocaine, and other club drugs.
Posted on May 11, 2008Saliva/Oral Drug Testing - A Solution to Corporate Drug Testing
The fact that America consumes 60% of the world's illicit drugs (Drug Enforcement Administration) makes employee drug testing compulsory for the US companies to maintain the work standards. Drug testing to the employees is an issue to many of the...
Posted on May 7, 2008Why Drug Testing is Essential for Students
Drug abuse is a growing problem among school and college students all over the US. According to National Institute on Drug Abuse research in 1987, one in twenty high school seniors drink alcohol daily, and 61% have tried illegal drugs.
Posted on April 10, 2008How To Conduct A Home Pregnancy Test
When a woman suspects that she is pregnant, it is better to take a home pregnancy test. Many women want to test their pregnancy at home to maintain privacy of their test result. Substantially they look for alternative solutions that can give...
Posted on March 29, 2008Laboratory Testing Services
The laboratory testing services facilitates to accurately find the presence of drug contents in the specimen. Professional home drug testing kits providers are offering laboratory testing services for confirming the test results at their selected...
Posted on March 10, 2008Mandatory School Drug Testing
Many schools are implementing mandatory drug testing for their students. It is significant to understand that school drug testing doesn't intend to punish the drug-abused students, but to keep them away from drugs. As high school sports get more and...
