Drug abuse in work places is a big head ache for the employers. Any significant amount of drug abuse among the employees directly affects the company’s performance. There would be increased amount of day time sleepiness, absenteeism, lack of concentration, health problems, work place accidents, and road traffic accidents and finally a lot of financial strain in the form of medical insurance. But drug service testing work place would serve to eliminate this problem on a large scale. Especially when this type of tests is done as a pre employment procedure, then there are a lot of chances to avoid recruiting users of illicit drugs.

The drug test work is quite similar to that of the tests done at home. Though the technique adopted is the same namely the immuno-chromatographic assay, there are few differences. When you do a drug test at home on yourself, you usually do it trying to detect a single known drug but when it comes to testing in a company you can not be sure which drug to test for. It is for this purpose that you are given with multi panel drug testing that test for a number of drugs at the same time.

When it comes to taking the samples for drug testing, you must follow some ethics. The best sample is the urine which can detect a lot of drugs. The second best sample is saliva. Though blood is also equally effective, you have to adopt an invasive procedure for drawing out blood. But urine is easy to obtain except for shy bladder people. Saliva is far easier to obtain and moreover you can take an oral swab in any environment. You must always have your own drug testing at work policy.

Sometimes in spite of this entire drug testing in the work place, the drugs may lurk in the office. It is because of the use of detox products or the employee would have been just an occasional user when he entered the work after taking the pre employment testing. But later on grew to be an addict.

A more efficient drug testing at work is to do hair drug tests. You can be deceived in urine or saliva drug tests if the drug and its metabolites are eliminated from the body. But you can detect drugs up to 3 months in the hair follicles.