Saliva versus urine - an overview of drug testing technologies

[syntax]

It is heartening to hear that supply is widening and prices are dropping. It is always good news to hear the loathsome drug warriors are losing their filthy war.


No test of that sort exists. It's redundant anyway. If someone wants to know if an individual is not capable of doing something they'd be better off performing an impairment test. The amount of some chemical is not going to tell them that definitively - it'll vary by individual and by drug, as well as a number of other factors. Workplaces for example typically rely on behavioural evidence of intoxication for alcohol, but use tests that detect nanograms, and then only of metabolites, for other drugs. The purpose of the testing is more than obvious - to maliciously hurt users of those drugs as well as by extension punishing their families.

you are probably right, the tests would have to be quite accurate.
This link seems to think it can pick up THC accurately enough to tell if you have used in the last 6 hours or not. If they can have similar for other drugs with that kind of accuracy i would have no issues in taking these kinds of tests

Link http://www.narcocheck.com/en/saliva-drug-tests/thc-marijuana-saliva-test.html

 

[Chicken Boo]

What kind of tests can be done to check if an employee is zonked out on Xanax or zolpidem?

 

[Aghori]

What kind of tests can be done to check if an employee is zonked out on Xanax or zolpidem?

Take them to a doctor and do a blood test.

 

[scudsucker]

Take them to a doctor and do a blood test.

Blood tests are expensive, because they have to test for specific chemicals. Each test is unique to a particular drug (or narrow family of chemicals).

If I do a few lines of ketamine at work* and refuse when asked to say what I've taken, then there is no real way to know I've done ketamine without the specific test for that chemical. And because ketamine is not a commonly used drug, there is very little chance they will check for it.


* don't do this, kids!

 

[Aghori]

I have never tried Ketamine yet. I did however mistakenly combine some Tramadol with diazepam once. Good times... especially after the 4th shot of whiskey. I woke up the next morning with retrograde amnesia. My sister told me that I had pissed all over the dog and said "good boy".