Drug Testing Via Saliva
6 Drug Saliva Screen Test
This 6 Panel Saliva Drug Test screens for Opiates/Morphine (such as Heroin), Marijuana, Cocaine/Crack, Methamphetamines, Amphetamines, and Phencyclidine. Reliable and accurate, this test uses immunoassay technology for assuring the best accuracy.
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Saliva drug testing is a simple and discreet method of drug abuse testing. Avoided are the inconvenience, embarrassment or biological hazard risks associated with urine specimen collection. It's one of five methods used to detect the presence of illegal drugs in a person’s body. The other four are urine, hair, blood, and perspiration (patch) tests.
Saliva drug testing is relatively less intrusive method of drug testing when compared to urinalysis or blood tests. It usually costs between $15 and $75 which is cheaper that blood and hair testing, but more costly than urine testing. They are also easy to administer, but require lab processing to ensure accurate results
Saliva drug testing primarily detects use within the past few days, and can detect more recent use than other testing methods, but have no nationally accepted standards or cutoff concentrations for detection. This makes results greatly dependent on the specific product purchased, and can vary from brand to brand, therefore making results less reliable and acceptable for legal cases. This can be a weak point of the test, and one to be exploited iby lawyers.
Oral fluid drug testing is more reliable for detection of meth and opiates, but less reliable for THC, which is the compound in marijuana that affects the nervous system and gives the drug its effects. Sensitivity with saliva testing is considerably lower than for urine tests, because the concentration of detectable drug metabolites is significantly less in oral fluids than in urine, because the metabolites are stored in the body’s fat cells.
Saliva testing does not require a highly skilled or specially trained test administrator, making it relatively simple for a medical assistant to give the test; in fact, these tests can be performed in their entirety directly on a job location or in the office of a company. This type of testing seems to be the direction in which screening is going, and should get cheaper over time.
