A couple of years back we had a father bring his son in for a drug test; we do lots of drug testing for parents but this guy’s son looked to be in his mid-twenties. The son gave us a urine specimen we would not accept, I do not remember exactly why we wouldn’t accept it but I am sure it was out of temperature range, or we there was some other factor that led us to believe it did not come out of his body. The father insisted he give another specimen; I am not sure why and it always baffles me when a parent is insistent on having a positive drug test result from us when they just got their answer when their child (or adult child) tried to cheat.

What’s the best was to beat a drug test??? Find someone who is drug free and sort of looks like you and get them to be your impersonator.

We had this happen at our clinic, a mother came in impersonating her daughter. They were quite clever and had somehow electronically placed the mother’s picture on the driver’s license of the daughter. I’m not sure how they did that but the license looked real. The collection was proceeding normally but our collector had a 6th sense that something was just not right, particularly when he wrote the birthdate of the donor of the lab chain. That’s when it hit him that something was afoul.

What’s 2 ounces of clean pee worth??

We recently had a truck driver come in for a random drug test. Truckers fall under DOT (department of transportation), a Federal Government organization that regulates the trucking industry as well as airlines, public transportation, coast guard, railroads, and pipeline workers. All safety sensitive employees who work in these industries are mandated to take random drug and alcohol tests. We see more positive drug tests for DOT workers who are “surprised” with a random test than we do if they are taking a Pre-Employment test. Pre-Employment applicants can simply stop using drugs long enough to get a negative test result.

We perform testing on-site for our clients. This is usually done for scheduled random testing and unscheduled after hours testing most commonly done for post-accident or reasonable suspicion.

We were summoned to a local manufacturing plant to perform a post-accident drug and alcohol test after hours on one of the plant supervisors. As is customary, we first performed the breath alcohol test with no incident. Following that the donor gave multiple excuses as to why he was unable to urinate, realizing we weren’t leaving he finally produced a specimen about an hour later.