Home Health Testing

According to the Center for Disease and Control, enough prescription painkillers were prescribed in 2010 to medicate every American adult around-the-clock for a month. While prescription painkillers were initially formulated to help people cope with pain—in today’s day and age, more and more people are using them to get high.

Considering that the quantity of prescription painkillers sold to pharmacies, hospitals, and doctor’s offices was four times larger in 2010 than in 1999, it’s no surprise that more and more prescription painkiller overdoses are occurring.  Looking at it from a world view, the United States consumes over 80 percent of the world’s opium which is the active ingredient in painkillers, however we only have 4.6 percent of the world’s population. Read More

A new form of drug abuse is on the rise. And it isn’t the kind that takes place in dark allies, or street corners, late at night. This new form of drug abuse is prescription painkiller drug abuse and it includes painkillers commonly known as opioids or narcotic pain relievers such as Vicodin (hydrocodone), OxyContin (oxycodone), Opana (oxymorphone) and methadone. Read More

The annual Drug Testing Index from Quest Diagnostics shows that the use of methamphetamines in the workplace is a large problem in Western states.  The Drug Testing Index has been published since 1988 and shows the positive test results for each drug by state for a large sampling of workplace drug tests conducted by Quest Diagnostics. Read More