Urine drug screening can enhance workplace safety, monitor medication compliance, and
detect drug abuse. Ordering and interpreting these tests requires an understanding of …

Purpose The implications of potential false-positive urine drug screen (UDS) results for
patients receiving commonly prescribed medications were evaluated. Summary A …

Urine drug testing is frequently used in clinical, employment, educational, and legal settings
and misinterpretation of test results can result in significant adverse consequences for the …

Drug testing, commonly used in health care, workplace, and criminal settings, has become
widespread during the past decade. Urine drug screens have been the most common …

Background: The term drug screen is a misnomer since it implies screening for all drugs,
which is not possible. Current practice is to limit the testing to the examination of serum for …

Congress passed the Drug‐Free Workplace Act in April 1988, which resulted in the
Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs. The intent was to …

Urine drug testing is an essential component of monitoring patients who are receiving long-
term opioid therapy, and it has been suggested for patients receiving long-term …

Urine drug testing has been used for several decades to monitor human drug use. This type
of urinalysis procedure was first used for patients who had been using drugs on a regular …

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Urine drug testing is now a common practice in the American workplace; a recent survey
indicated that> 90% of companies with> 5000 employees have some type of testing …