Employment Drug Screening Tests
Pre employment testing includes credit checks, drug testing and reference checks, etc. Now drug testing is the procedure that most of you would fear about. The companies have realized that having drug abusers in work places is a serious affair. So they perform a mandatory drug testing on all the employees as well as the job applicants irrespective of their grade and rank. Employment drug screening tests are done using simple and instant result producing kits that are equipped with adulterant testing too.
Mostly employment drug test alcohol shows alcohol dependence. There are instances where people have been rejected for the reason that their results showed positive result for alcohol in the body. But the person had been only a mild drinker. Sometimes any underlying liver pathology may fail to metabolize the alcohol consumed which leads to cumulative effect of the alcohol in the body though there is no effective system for storage of alcohol in our body. In many cases the drug itself may not be an abuse but any underlying pathology in the body may store the drugs and show up later on testing.
You may never be a user of illicit drugs neither for therapeutic purposes nor for abuse purposes. Yet the employment urine drug test may show positive results for any of the drugs of abuse. This may occur if you had been staying with any guy who smokes THC or cocaine, or any drugs of abuse. The second hand smoke emitted from the other person may lodge in your body in the scalp mainly. And when the company asks for your hair scalp for drug testing it would show positive results regardless of the fact that you never smoked THC. In such cases you have to avoid completely having any sort of intimate relationship with such abusers.
Earlier the federal employment drug testing allowed only drug testing of urine samples alone, but now even hair samples are tested because they can detect drugs up to 3 months after stoppage of use. So even if you had stopped your drug use just 2 months back, your hair sample would make you loses your job.
Florida drug testing provides incentives for their employees who do voluntary drug testing. Moreover companies and work places who maintain a drug free environment are given preference over other companies when it comes for giving bids.
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August 28th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
question regarding having to take the pre-employment drug testing and I’m concerned because I take adderall for my ADD and I have a feeling I’m going to fail that test due to taking my medication, will it affect my test
thanks
Rosie
August 29th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Adderal will show up as “ampetamines” in the drug test.
They really should not hold that against you for a job. Just like if you had diabetes & were taking meds for it, would it be fair for them to punish you simply because you were taking meds to treat it?
If you are a Physician’s care & takig meds as prescribed, & your employer is willing to reason, then it sould not become a significant barrier.
Thanks.
February 4th, 2010 at 2:23 am
I think that is an interesting point, it made me think a bit. Thanks for sparking my thinking cap. Sometimes I get so much in a rut that I just feel like a record.
June 16th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Hi, I adore your post on diabetes!