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Evolution Of Most Popular Abused Drugs In The US

Drugs have been abused in the United States for well over a century with opiates being a very common addiction throughout most of the 19th century as well as legal to purchase up until 1914. By the 1940s, heroin and marijuana were two of the most common drugs abused in the United States, most often [...]

What is Split Specimen Urine Drug Testing?

This is a form of testing required by all Department Of Transportation testing sites. The Department of Transportation (or DOT) regulations for drug testing are also often used by employers to determine if their employees are drug free when conducting their work. This is because these regulations are fair both to the employer and the [...]

Seven Places Where Employees Hide Drugs in the Work Place

The crackdown on illegal substances and drug abuse is getting more difficult and challenging every year. Although employees are tested for drug use before they are hired, drug users just wait until after drug testing to resume their drug use. Some even hide drugs in their offices and sneak out to smoke marijuana or snort [...]

Seven Factors that Decrease Drug Detection Times for Drug Testing

Drug screening is being used all over the world as an effective means to combat and put a stop to drug abuse. A lot of illegal drug users have been detected because of effective drug screening tests. However, a few users go by unnoticed because they try different methods of cheating drug tests. Some just [...]

Ten Most Common Places Where Kids Hide Drugs

Each year, more and more children fall into the many traps of drug abuse. Even children as young as ten years old have started experimenting with illegal drugs, most of which they pick up from their peers in school. Some even smoke marijuana at home and keep their stash in places undetected by parents.
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Drug Testing Myths Busted

Drug testing has been an excellent deterrent to continuous drug abuse around the world. A lot of people, though, have found different methods to cheat drug tests to be able to enjoy years of continuous, undetected drug use. Some of these cheating methods have seemed to allow users to pass simple urine testing while many [...]

How to Detect Urine Adulteration and How to Prevent Drug Test Tampering

Although drug testing has become a practical, inexpensive way to determine whether your staff or your family has been abusing drugs, people has found ways to tamper testing samples to pass drug tests and yield negative results. Urine adulteration is a very popular way to cheat drug tests and the knowledge and understanding of how [...]

Helping Your Kids Deal with Drug Testing Fears – Talk to Them about It!

Drug testing in schools is one way of preventing the use of illicit drugs. Unlike mandatory testing made for employees, this one is made at random. At some points, there are controversies linked behind the imposition of drug tests in students. Add to that the fact that there are common drug testing fears that one [...]