WASHINGTON — Drug testing facilities that have invested in oral-fluid-based testing for motor carriers, airlines, railroads and pipeline operators are pushing back on a proposal by the U.S. Department ...

Alps Dx today announced its official launch as an innovative diagnostics tooling and automation company focused on improving the speed, safety, and scalability of oral fluid drug testing and beyond.

The Department of Transportation is revising a requirement that it calls an “inadvertent factual impossibility” from its drug testing procedures. A provision from DOT’s 2023 oral fluid drug testing ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Research underway at Western Michigan University could revolutionize the future of testing for drugs, which is subject to abuse. "The main way the outcomes of substance abuse ...

With more than 230,000 positive drug tests since 2020, how the trucking industry detects drivers’ drug use is an important topic. Currently, Department of Transportation drug testing relies entirely ...

Substance abuse in the United States isn’t a new phenomenon and, in fact, drugs being abused today were once regarded as medicine. In the 19th century, for example, heroin and cocaine were approved ...

Workplace drug testing may never be the same. After 30 years of only permitting lab-based urine testing, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) published its final ...

It’s been a long time in the works, but the U.S. Department of Transportation has published a final rule that amends the federal regulated industry drug-testing program to include oral fluid specimen ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation is revising its drug and alcohol testing procedures that were finalized in May 2023 that authorized oral fluid drug testing as an additional methodology for ...

Bridget Lemberg, founder and director, Forensic Fluids Laboratories Inc. Bridget Lemberg, director and toxicologist at Forensic Fluid Laboratories Inc., has been practicing toxicology and pharmacology ...