How Drug Testing Works

If you are a human resources professional, then you know how important drug testing is to the hiring process. This book takes you step by step through the entire process from beginning to end. It is an easy to understand look inside the drug testing laboratory process. It will answer most if not all your questions about drug screening. It also provides additional information about how people cheat the drug test, and how the laboratory goes about catching such instances. This book is also for people going in for drug testing. It is important you understand the process, especially if your life or the lives of your children depend on you passing the test. There is also information about different drugs that may interfere with the drug testing process. A lot of people come up positive for a drug test unintentionally. This book also dispels a lot of the common myths and misconceptions about drug testing. Peter Nzueni worked at a leading drug testing laboratory for 12 years. During which time, he trained a lot of the drug testing professionals and interacted with the leading scientists in the field. A lot of this information has not been common knowledge outside the industry - until now.

LanguageEnglish

Release dateOct 5, 2022

ISBN9798215052198

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How Drug Testing Works

Peter Nzueni

Published by Peter Nzueni, 2022.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

HOW DRUG TESTING WORKS

Copyright © 2022 Peter Nzueni.

Written by Peter Nzueni.

During my 12 years in the drug testing industry, I have answered customer service calls from across Accessioned and processed specimens.

Trained customer service representatives, leaders, and sales representatives.

I managed over 10 million dollars’ worth of drug testing business.

And I worked with the leading scientists and leaders in the industry.

What I came to realize is that most people - HR personnel, probation and parole officers and others involved in the industry - do not know the ins and outs of drug testing.

I have spoken to a lot of people who have spent many sleepless nights worrying about a drug test they have to take at work. These are not always regular drug users. They are regular folks – police officers, managers, people with jobs that make six figures.

Often, it is because they took a supplement that they are worried will show up on a drug test.

Often, their livelihoods hang in the balance.

Some have lost their jobs.

Once, I spoke to a lady who had relocated her whole family for a new job offer, only to fail the drug test and loose the opportunity. She was devastated.

You hear it in the news every day.

An athlete fails a drug test and loses millions of dollars in income because of it.

I have spoken to people who did not know that their mouthwash would give them a positive result for alcohol! People have lost their family, had children taken away, lost in a divorce and had their marriages torn apart because of it.

I spoke to a police officer once who was losing his job because he did not know that a workout drink he was taking, would make him test positive for Steroids.

A lot of times, the people Administering the test do not know what they are testing for and at what levels. They rely on the drug testing company they are using to provide them with the correct information.

I have talked to rehab centers that wonder why people are not testing positive for drugs that they know are being provided to them.

This is because the facility was not testing for the right drugs.

Mothers call crying because their children are being taken away, only to find out the wrong test was ordered.

People in awesome jobs call me frustrated because they did not know that a seemingly innocent drink they were drinking or food they ate would give them a positive result.

Then there is the plethora of detox remedies, drinks and pills that promise to clean out your system and get you a negative result.

There is endless advice on diluting your specimen, using someone else’s urine and other weird recipes that may or may not work. How do you know what works and what does not?

There are the endless federal and state laws that a lot of businesses do not know they have to comply with.

I have seen many companies sued because they did not follow State regulations and fired someone for a test, they should not have been performing in the first place.

For example, were you aware that you cannot perform a random drug test in the State of California? Or that the State of Hawaii does not allow instant drug testing?

I am hoping that by explaining the process, HR representatives can get information