Drug Testing - General Information
To order any of the offered drug tests, please contact CBSP, LLC. at (978) 887-2071 or email us at cbsp@comcast.net and identify which product you are interested in.
The need for drug testing cannot be understated: in the United States over 20 percent of full-time employees between the ages of 20 and 34 used illicit drugs last year, missing work almost twice as often as non-drug users, and filing more than twice as many workers compensation claims.
Drug testing services further increase the effectiveness of an employment screening program by isolating applicants with a history of substance abuse.
A drug test is commonly a technical examination of urine, semen, blood, sweat, or oral fluid samples to determine the presence or absence of specified drugs or their metabolized traces.
CBSP has partnered with a Drug Screening Company that's been in business for 15 years and is proud of their record for excellence in personalized service. Our partner firm is one of 65 in the nation to receive status as Nationally Accredited for Administration of Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs.
Nationally Accredited for Administration of Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs providers adhere to strict industry established standards for operation of their business. Adherence to these standards will ensure the company and their program participants that they are performing their services within the federal regulations, and in such a way that will provide exceptional customer service and loyalty.
General Information about Drug Testing in the USA
Drug tests in the USA can be divided into two general groups, federally and non-federally regulated testing. Federally regulated testing started when Ronald Reagan executive order 12564, requiring all federal employees to refrain from using illegal and specified DOT regulated occupations. Drug testing guidelines and processes, in these areas exclusively, are established and regulated (by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration or SAMHSA, formerly under the direction of the National Institute on Drug Abuse or NIDA) require that companies who use professional drivers, specified safety sensitive transportation and/or oil and gas related occupations, and certain federal employers, test them for the presence of certain drugs. These test classes were established decades ago, and include five specific drug groups. They do not always account for current drug usage patterns. For example, the tests sometimes exclude semi-synthetic opioids, such as oxycodone, oxymorphone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, etc., compounds that are also abused in the United States.
Detection periods
The following chart gives approximate detection periods for each substance by test type. The ranges depend on amount and frequency of use, metabolic rate, body mass, age, overall health, and urine pH. For ease of use, the detection times of metabolites have been incorporated into each parent drug. For example, heroin and cocaine can only be detected for a few hours after use, but their metabolites can be detected for several days in urine. In this type of situation, we will report the (longer) detection times of the metabolites.
