Know About Common Drug Testing Methods and Their Characteristics

By | March 28, 2012

The importance of drug testing is increasing day by day along with increasing numbers of drug abusers, present days drug testing is available in the schools and workplaces. Drug testing is more important for law enforcement and sports etc.. Drug testing is using many methods at finding the drug abusers.

Drug testing method is possible with the various sample testings. The commonly methods of testing is by taking the samples of saliva, blood, urine, breath, hair, sweat. All these methods provide accurate drug abusing results.

Commonly hearing drug testing methods are:

Urine test: Its the most common and inexpensive drug testing method, its provides the accurate (positive or negative) results within minutes. This method does not require the experts while conducting drug tests because of its easy drug testing facilities.

Saliva test: This is also very easy to conduct the drug test, the sample collection takes without any discomfort to individuals. Saliva test is also inexpensive; it provides the accurate and reliable results. This method provides immediate drug testing results.

Blood test: It provides more accurate and reliable results than others. This test is a bit more expensive than others. Blood drug testing requires the technician while conducting the drug test and collecting blood sample.

Breath test: This test is commonly used for conducting the alcohol detection, this method provides the accurate and quick results on alcohol detections. This test is very easy to detect the abusers without collecting any sample.

Hair test: This method is very aggressive while conducting the drug test, this test requires donor’s hair as a sample, the major advantage of this test is that, even a minute amount of drug can be traced even after a longer period of time.

These are the common methods of administering drug tests. These very useful for drug testing at homes, offices and schools for creating safety environments.