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Urinalysis facts Urinalysis has long been a major tool of hospitals and medical laboratories to check one’s kidney problems and other organism malfunctions. More recently, doctors used urinalysis to detect the presence of Alzheimer's disease. Nowadays urinalysis is widely used in different spheres for the testing of alcohol and prohibited drugs. It is so popular because it allows detecting pres...   More... >>

Use synthetic urine and be sure Abstaining from the drugs doesn’t assure negative readings on the drug test. It is a shocking fact that there are more than 250 medications that could cause a false positive. The negative error rate is just as large as the positive error rate. These days, people who use drugs have learnt how to escape detection. Yet people who don’t use drugs but take some pres...   More... >>

Holistic Detox Detoxification is not just a dramatic one-time happening, it's an ongoing process. You don’t need to go to expensive spa resorts to detoxify yourself, a lot of work you can do at home by taking a closer look at what you put in -- and on -- your body; just be more attentive to what you eat. Alexandra Jamieson, the author of "The Great American Detox Diet," had the unprecedente...   More... >>

Getting prepared for drugs detoxification Whatever reason you’ve decided to stop using drugs for; if you want completely to give up or simply to have a break from consuming, even if you are just a seasonal drug user, you need to plan your detox program carefully. Decide precisely when you're going to do it; put aside a couple of weeks when you have no stressful obligations, any emergencies and ...   More... >>

Opiate withdrawal detoxification When you make a firm decision to detox from heavy drugs try to reduce your habit to a manageable level as soon as possible. Barbiturates and benzodiazepines are dangerous to detox from. Some people don’t believe that drugs withdrawal is possible, but many people who are clean now are the best evidence that it is possible. Though, it is rather hard; especially...   More... >>

Urine drug screening These days some employers request employees to submit their urine sample for drug screening. Usually on random basis employees are instructed to go to a urine collection site. When the urine is collected in specially designed cups; then cups are sealed with a tamper resistant tape. Collected cups are directed by express delivery service to a drug testing professional labo...   More... >>

Debates on urine drug tests Systematic cheating and questionable accuracy of the urine screens lead to the debate on their efficacy. False positive results occur quite often, and it is reported that urine specimen adulteration and substitution happen frequently; and both of these methods of avoiding positive drug tests’ results are effective. Of course most testing facilities check the specimen...   More... >>

New rules for checking urine specimens Have noticed that many people falsify the drug tests laboratories have launched adulteration tests. These test help to detect if "detox" products were applied. To insure that urine was not altered laboratories examine it for many characteristics such as pH, specific gravity, level of glutaraldehyde, nitrite, pyridinium chlorochromate, bleach, creatinine a...   More... >>

Sweat drug screen Sweat tests are not very popular these days due to documented problems that governmental agencies had in the past. To verify if a person take drugs, special patches fixed on the skin. These patches should stay in direct contact with skin for about 10–14 days and collect sweat. Generally they are used by parole departments, child protective services, and some other government i...   More... >>

Hair testing for drugs Hair tests provide accurate results for drug usage examination for a long period of time, for up to 90 days precedent to the testing procedure. Hair comprises all drugs that were used during the growth period. Long hair reveals one’s drug history spanning longer time period than short hair. Drug testing laboratories require a strand of hair not shorter than 0.5 inches for...   More... >>