Transportation Drug Testing Law Anniversary

November 8, 2011 Drugs & Testing

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) celebrated 20 years of the statutory authority to conduct drug and alcohol testing for workers entrusted with the safe operation of our nation’s transportation system. The Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act, signed into law on October 28, 1991, was enacted to reduce the abuse of alcohol and illegal use of [...]

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CCF Deadline is November 30, 2011

November 1, 2011 Uncategorized

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is allowing the use of the 2000 Federal Custody and Control Form (CCF) through November 30, 2011 for federal workplace drug testing specimens. Both the 2010 and 2000 versions of the Federal CCF are acceptable during this time for Federal agency employee specimens. Beginning December 1, [...]

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National Drug Facts Week

October 31, 2011 Uncategorized

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is promoting National Drug Facts Week, a health observance week for teens that aims to shatter the myths about drugs and drug abuse. This year the cause is honored on October 31 through November 6 with contests, community-based events and online activities. NIDA encourages you to tweet, blog, or [...]

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DTI in USA Today

October 28, 2011 Uncategorized

The October 27 issue of USA Today featured the Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index™ (DTI) methamphetamine data in its USA Today Snapshot® for the Money section. The Snapshot highlighted the meth test positives percentage by state greater than the national average, showing the top five for abuse include: Hawaii– 410% Arkansas– 280% Oklahoma– 240% Nevada– [...]

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Human Resources Executive magazine puts a spotlight on methamphetamines

October 27, 2011 Uncategorized

Human Resources Executive calls attention to the use of methamphetamines remaining steady as other drug test positives have declined. Methamphetamine use has remained at 0.10 percent for the past two years. The October 16th article also examines the geographic differences illustrating that the western United States has a much higher instance of drug use than [...]

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Online Scheduling in Real-time

October 20, 2011 Uncategorized

Quest Diagnostics provides a network of more than 2,000 Patient Service Centers (PSC) across theUnited States. Our Online Scheduler is a convenient tool with an easy to use interface for real-time appointment scheduling at any of our locations. We enhanced our Online Scheduler to further simplify the appointment process. When scheduling an appointment, you can: [...]

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Report Change

October 18, 2011 Uncategorized

Going forward, non-regulated drug testing reports from Quest Diagnostics will no longer feature the Certifying Scientist’s full name at the bottom of the report. Instead of the scientist’s name, a unique identifier will appear such as “KSAD11.” This change, effective October 2011, was made for security and privacy reasons. It only affects the non-regulated results.

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