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Drug screening tests are notoriously unreliable with false positives being common. They must always be backed up by a more sophisticated GC/MS confirmation before being considered conclusive. Drug testing laboratories generally do perform this extra confirmation step.
GENERAL INFORMATION #
Drug Checking Vault
Drug Testing Basics
Drug Testing FAQ
How To Respond to a Drug Test
Drug Testing Technology
Ask Erowid : Drug Testing
Notes on Drug Testing in the Military
DOD 1010.16 Dec 9 1994 : Military Personnel Drug Abuse Testing Program
PRODUCTS #
Drug Test Defense Products (System Cleansing, Additives, Replacement Urine)
Field Tests & Adulterant Screening Products
US GAO Report on Drug Testing "Defrauding" Products, May 2005
LAW #
Drug Testing Law
Drug Testing Defense Product Law
Supreme Court Strikes Down Secret Hospital Drug Testing
ACLU #
ACLU Drug Testing Briefing
ACLU on the Inaccuracy of Hair Tests
ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
Less Ecstasy, More Data: 15 Years of the EcstasyData Program, 2016
Project Update / EcstasyData: Analytical Glimpses of "Molly" and Research Chemicals, 2013
Legal Highs Report - Energy Control, 2011
Drug Screening for the Courts - by M. Grosh & S. Barber, 2003
Test Your Government, Not Your Urine - J Nightbyrd, Jan 1995
Drug Testing is a Bust - Health Magazine, Sep 1993
Drugs of Abuse and Their Detection in Urine - Ed Uthman, MD, Apr 1993
Drug Testing, Is It Worth It? - B. Julin, 1993
Why Restrict Private Drug Testing? - P. Hager, Jan 1991
FIELD TESTING, PILL TESTING & DRUG CHECKING #
Field Tests for Identifying & Screening Chemicals
Substance Testing on the Dance Floor - Club Health Poster, 2010
Energy Control: TLC and Other Risk Reduction Approaches - Erowid Extracts, Nov 2008
Ecstasy pill testing: harm minimisation gone too far? - 2001
RESEARCH & JOURNAL ARTICLES #
Related Journal References
Drug checking as a potential strategic overdose response in the fentanyl era - Dec 2018
Urine drug screening: practical guide for clinicians - Jan 2008
Screening for tryptamines and phenethylamines - Sep 2004
Putting an Ecstasy test kit to the test: harm reduction or harm induction, Oct 2003
Study Finding School Drug Testing Fails to Reduce Drug Use, Apr 2003
MEDIA COVERAGE #
Pissing Away - Eye Weekly, AP 1995
New Drug Tests Use Hair - AP, Jun 1994
Horror Stories of Drugs in the Workplace Don't Hold Up - Baltimore Sun, May 1991
Your Analysis is Faulty: How to lie with drug statistics - The New Republic, 1990
PASSING TESTS #
Fooling the Bladder Cops
How to Pass a Piss Test
SCHOOL DRUG TESTING #
Study Finding School Drug Testing Fails to Reduce Drug Use, Apr 2003
EXPERIENCES #
Poppy Seed Disaster, by John Gibson
Almost Too Easy, by eG
THC Detection Times in Occasional Smoker, by Texture
Salty Stick, by Ralph B
Withdrawal, and Clean at One Month, by Espaola
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REPORTS AND SUMMARIES #
Nederlands Drugs Information and Monitoring System 2015 Annual Report
Energy Control's 2015 Annual Report (Espanol)
MISCELLANEOUS #
Brief Impairment Testing Info
More on Detection Times
Beating the Test
Visine Might Cause False Negatives
BOOKS #
Steal This Urine Test: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America
Ur-ine Trouble: The Truth about Drug Tests
Under the Influence?: Drugs and the American Work Force
Drug Testing: The Right to Privacy vs The Right to Test
Drug Testing at Work : A Guide for Employers & Employees
Drug Testing: Issues and Options
Drug Test Interactions Handbook
Drugs, Drug Testing and You
OFF-SITE RESOURCES
PRIMARY RESOURCES #
MPP : False Positives Equal False Justice (PDF)
NORML : Drug Testing
National Toxicology Specialists, Inc.
Drug Policy Alliance : Putting an End to Drug Testing
Companies That Drug Test
SAMHSA : Workplace Drug Testing FAQ
ACLU : Workplace Drug Testing
DISA : Types of Drug Tests
MEDIA COVERAGE #
Busted: Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on [...] - ProPublica and NYT Magazine, Jul 7 2016
Is the Army losing its war against drug abuse? - Independent (UK), Mar 14 2010
Fear Meets Sex Appeal In Drug-Detecting - Jezebel, Oct 8 2009
Device Offers a Roadside Dope Test - Technology Review, Aug 4 2009
Startling Research on False Positive Drug Tests - Drug War Chronicle, Mar 3 2009
Like, busted for chocolate - Now Toronto, Feb 25 2009
Men guilty over fake penis scam - BBC News, Nov 25 2008
False results put drug tests under microscope - USA Today, Nov 3 2008
FDA Approves Lower-Threshold Screening Device "Sure-Screen" by MedTox - Nov 2005
Why Drug Tests Flunk - Salon, Apr 22 2002
Media Awareness Project : Drug Testing
RESEARCH & JOURNAL ARTICLES #
Drug Early Warning from Re-Testing Biological Samples: Maryland Hospital Study - NDEWS, Aug 21, 2018
Journal of Analytical Toxicology
Drug Testing and Analysis
LAW #
On-Site Drug Testing State Regulations 2004
SCHOOL DRUG TESTING #
Put to the test: More schools are asking students to take drug tests...., LA Times, May 21, 2007
Blowing Smoke: Why random drug testing doesn't reduce student drug use, Slate, Apr 2006
Pottawatomie Count vs Earls Supreme Court approves school testing (2002)
CCLE's Response to the Earls Decision
SSDP : Student Drug Testing
SCANNING OR REMOTE DETECTION #
The post office will now email you photos of your mail ... - Techcrunch, Mar 2017
Informed Delivery by USPS