Drug Screening Is Dangerous To Your Job
Article by Onotoleo
The results of drug screening can be invalid in certain cases. These drawbacks of drug screening can diminish your freedom and lose your work.ValidityThe Centre for Disease Control has tested the laboratories sending known quantities of drugs. The laboratories were unable to detect the drugs present in the example. Even though the laboratories were improved the methodology and reliability, still the trouble continues.The Two Bagel BreakfastSample urine screened positive for opiates by RIA, EMIT. GC/MS identified morphine content. The individual denied opiate abuse and an inquiry was done. Inquiry revealed a diet consisting of a Burger King hamburger the night before the specimen was taken and a breakfast apparently usual, of two bagels from the university snack bar. Individual appeared to be quite normal. They came to the conclusion that the pulverization of few poppy seeds used as a decoration on the bagel resulted in positive immunoassay response. Many ErrorsErrors can be made anywhere in the process of drug screening. The workers become the guinea pig used to develop screening that can be accurate. Problems of lab performance, faulty conformation, legal action and carelessness appear almost immediately in mass screenings of military personnel