Drug Testing Index

U.S. Worker Use of Prescription Opiates Climbing

September 20, 2010 Drugs & Testing

The Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index™ reports that more American workers and job applicants are testing positive for prescription opiates. Results from more than 5.5 million urine drug tests reveal an 18 percent jump in opiate positives in the general U.S. workforce in a single year (2008 to 2009), and a more than 40 percent [...]

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Insightful Webinars on Drug Testing

March 17, 2010 Training

Recent Trends in Workplace Testing for Illicit Drugs in Hair and Urine In January, our Director of Science and Technology, Dr. Barry Sample presented a Webinar entitled “Recent Trends in Workplace Testing for Illicit Drugs in Hair and Urine.” The Webinar covered information from the  the first-ever Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index (DTI) that included [...]

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Drug Testing Index with Hair Testing

November 20, 2009 Industry News

New data released today by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX), the nation’s leading provider of employment-related drug testing services, reveal that drug testing of hair specimens from employees and job applicants in the general U.S. workforce has tracked sharp downward trends in cocaine and methamphetamine use from 2005 to the first half of 2009 that [...]

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USA Today Runs DTI Article

November 20, 2009 Industry News

On November 20, 2009, Quest Diagnostics published our first Drug Testing Index TM with hair testing data. USA Today ran an article about our release: Newer workplace drug tests using hair samples reveal 10 times as many job applicants and employees taking cocaine and methamphetamine than had been found in urine tests. Quest Diagnostics on [...]

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Online Newsletters

August 4, 2009 eNewsletter

We publish a monthly eNewsletter that covers a broad range of drug testing, wellness and general employee screening topics. If you would like to receive our “Results” newsletter, click here to opt in.

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Random Testing Deters Drug Use

July 29, 2009 Drugs & Testing

Random drug testing programs appear to deter drug use, DTI data shows. In the federally mandated safety-sensitive workforce, where employees expect random drug testing, the drug positivity rate is far lower than the rate of positivity among job applicants in that same workforce. However, in the general workforce, where employees are far less likely to [...]

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