Answering Some Hair Drug Test Questions

You’ve just gotten back from the barber with a new look.  Your hair is gone – all gone.  Now the question is, you can’t be hair drug tested if you have no hair, can you? Well, actually, you CAN still be hair drug tested.  It just depends if the person getting the test got the right test for you. Any test produced by HairConfirm will accept body hair submissions.  Body hair grows more slowly than hair on your head, so the timeframe represented by a body hair submission is about one year.  That also means that it does not have the same starting point...

Fight Relapse – Use A Hair Drug Te...

There are various kinds of tests that you can do these days to ascertain whether someone has been on drugs or not. While some drug tests use a saliva sample, or a blood sample to test for drug addiction, there are others that use a urine sample for drug abuse testing. While gathering a sample for drug testing may seem invasive or perhaps tedious, a drug test is a necessary thing to do when you are recruiting people for a specific industry or trying to check if someone has been on drugs before coming to work. It’s also an important tool when you’re helping...

Are You Ready for the Olympics?

It’s hard not to enjoy the Olympics.  There’s always some aspect to get your attention – the variety of people attending, sports you never heard of, flags you’ve never seen, new things to learn.  We have learned something new already today – do you know Ross Rebagliati? Ross won the first gold medal ever for snowboarding at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan.  After this great accomplishment, the International Olympic Committee rewarded him by stepping in – and taking his medal.  Why? Because he failed a drug test. Ross tested...

Hair Drug Testing – Police Are Sub...

You may be used to the idea of police conducting drug testing, and alcohol testing as well.  But did you ever think about the fact that police are drug tested too?  As in many other professions, especially those that are safety related (and police work certainly is that), police departments can test their workers. This news article (ABC News: Police To Be Drug Tested Under New Laws) from ABC News, an Australian outlet, details the initiative to bring drug testing into standard police HR procedures.  It might surprise you that such procedures were not standard operating...

Drug Testing the Center of Debate in Kan...

Republican lawmakers in Kansas have come up with a proposal to screen welfare recipients for drug use.  There are a few proposals on the table, and they are not exactly new.  The Kansas House of Representatives passed a similar bill last year but the Senate of the state did not.  The lawmakers in charge of reviving such proposals are in the Senate. One proposal would require drug testing all welfare recipients – around 44,000 people.  Another bill suggests people would only be tested if there was “reasonable cause” to believe they were using drugs. It...