Temperature isn’t the only way to tell if a donor gives a good urine specimen. There are many, many, other ways our collectors are trained to determine if the urine came out of the donor’s body. Sometimes the temperature can be perfect, but we will still reject the specimen; I won’t go into details that determine if we reject a specimen but if you ask a First Choice Staff member they will happily share some of them. This particular cheater story involves a specimen that had all the signs of a bad sample.

On a frigid day not too long ago, we had a donor come into our clinic for a drug test. The donor was given a cup by a First Choice employee along with instructions and procedures for the drug test. The donor came out of the bathroom a short time later and handed the cup of urine to the collector. The temperature strip on the cup was well below normal body temperature of 98.6 degrees, and the collector could feel the cold plastic cup through his glove. The urine wasn’t even room temperature; it felt like it had been taken out of the freezer. The person taking the test had obviously been outside in the cold for some time and they had someone else’s urine with them!

Many clients of ours prefer that we come on-site to conduct drug tests. Doing so keeps their
operation running smoothly with little to no down time, which can save them money. Testing on-site is a
cost effective and convenient way to test applicants or current employees.

People will go to great lengths to pass a drug test, especially when their job and essentially their livelihood is on the line. People that don’t use drugs typically never think twice about taking a drug test. Drug users who try to defraud a drug test will have some sort of game plan and typically a backup plan. This cheater story is about a backup plan gone wrong.