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In Onondaga, NY, Accredited Drug Testing offers comprehensive hair follicle drug tests. Our expertise in hair testing is accessible nationwide, ensuring any city can conduct these tests. Typically, hair samples should measure between 1.5 to 2 inches, sourced from the crown or other body parts, enabling checks for drugs, alcohol/ETG, or personalized testing needs.
Hair follicle drug testing has become increasingly prevalent, preferred by employers, courts, and professionals. It's often chosen over urine testing due to its efficacy in zero-tolerance and probation scenarios. The advantage lies in its ability to detect drug use for up to 90 days through an observed process, minimizing cheating attempts. However, urine remains accurate for recent usage within five days.
In Onondaga, NY, Accredited Drug Testing offers comprehensive hair follicle drug tests. Our expertise in hair testing is accessible nationwide, ensuring any city can conduct these tests. Typically, hair samples should measure between 1.5 to 2 inches, sourced from the crown or other body parts, enabling checks for drugs, alcohol/ETG, or personalized testing needs.
Hair follicle drug testing has become increasingly prevalent, preferred by employers, courts, and professionals. It's often chosen over urine testing due to its efficacy in zero-tolerance and probation scenarios. The advantage lies in its ability to detect drug use for up to 90 days through an observed process, minimizing cheating attempts. However, urine remains accurate for recent usage within five days.
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Hair analysis is now recognized as a potent method for identifying drug and alcohol consumption. Hair offers an extended timeline of alcohol and substance use by capturing biomarkers within the strands of the hair as it grows. When taken from near the scalp, hair can reveal up to roughly a 3-month duration of alcohol and drug detection. Hair collection is straightforward, moderately resistant to tampering, and easy to transport.
A sample measuring 1.5 inches from about 200 hairs (around the thickness of a #2 pencil) nearest to the scalp will yield 100mg of hair, the preferred amount for both screening and confirmation. For tests involving EtG, additional components, and/or exceeding 10 panels, 150mg of the hair specimen is advised. It's suggested to use a jeweler’s scale for weighing the specimen. If scalp hair isn't available, an equivalent amount of body hair can be used. By head hair, we mean scalp hair exclusively. Body hair includes all other types of hair (facial, underarm, etc.).
Process Overview
The process consists of four primary steps in laboratory handling of a drug test result: Accessioning, Screening, Extraction, and Confirmation.
Accessioning is the preliminary processing step in integrating a sample into a laboratory’s system. It includes ensuring the sample's seal and shipment were secure, generating a random LAN (Laboratory Accessioning Number), and completing any missing data entry from an electronic chain of custody system.
Screening serves as a rapid preliminary test for drugs of misuse. Although Screening offers a cost-effective way to exclude drug usage in most samples, a positive screen must be verified for legal acceptability. Samples that are presumptively positive in Screening need secondary confirmation.
When a sample tests presumptively positive during Screening, additional hair is extracted from the original sample for further Extraction. At this phase, drugs are removed from the hair at a lower concentration than with other methods (e.g., urine or oral fluid), underscoring the complexity of hair drug screening.
A positive screen result is confirmed using GC/MS, GC/MS/MS, or LC/MS/MS techniques. All samples presumed positive are cleansed before confirmation if necessary. The complete laboratory process, from Accessioning to Confirmation, adheres to the CAP (College of American Pathologists) Hair certification and ISO / IEC 17025 accreditation.
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Note: Despite being commonly called "hair follicle tests", the procedure analyzes the hair strand, not the follicle beneath the scalp.
Hair Versus Urine Testing in Onondaga, NY
In Onondaga, NY, hair follicle testing provides superior detection capabilities compared to traditional urine tests. The reliability and accuracy of hair tests make them the preferred choice for those seeking thorough drug use evaluations.
Extended Detection Period in Onondaga, NY
Offering a detection window of up to 90 days, hair follicle testing in Onondaga, NY captures a more comprehensive history of drug use. Employers benefit from the extensive substance use insights it provides, ensuring better hiring and monitoring decisions.
Secure and Tamper-Resistant in Onondaga, NY
Hair follicle testing significantly reduces the chance of sample tampering, delivering trustworthy results in Onondaga, NY. The confidence in the integrity of these tests makes them a reliable option for accurate drug testing.
Nationwide and Local Convenience in Onondaga, NY
Accredited Drug Testing offers easy access to our services nationwide, including in Onondaga, NY. Convenient testing locations ensure employers and individuals experience seamless, stress-free testing processes.
Confidential and Straightforward Process in Onondaga, NY
Our process in Onondaga, NY is designed to be simple and confidential, ensuring privacy and ease from ordering to receiving results. Our approach relieves concerns about the complexity and confidentiality of drug testing.
Cost-Effective and Quick in Onondaga, NY
Accredited Drug Testing delivers affordable and prompt services in Onondaga, NY. Our competitive pricing and swift turnaround provide excellent value for businesses of all sizes, enhancing efficiency.
Fast and Accurate Testing in Onondaga, NY
Hair follicle drug tests in Onondaga, NY offer unparalleled accuracy and rapid results. The precision of these tests ensures substance use is detected effectively, supporting employers and individuals in making informed decisions about drug use and safety.
Employer Assurance in Onondaga, NY
Using hair follicle tests ensures compliance with drug-free workplace policies in Onondaga, NY, fostering a safer work environment. Employers gain peace of mind, minimizing legal risks associated with drug use.
With its multidisciplinary nature, hair testing brings together researchers, scientists, and experts from various domains to develop innovative techniques, explore new methodologies, and address emerging concerns, responding to the ever-evolving challenges of drug abuse, therapeutic drug monitoring, and environmental exposures to pollutants.
The joint meeting of the Society of Hair Testing (SoHT) and the Italian Group of Forensic Toxicologists (GTFI) was organized in Verona, June 8–10, 2022, and hosted by the Legal Medicine team of the Verona University Hospital, directed by Franco Tagliaro together with Federica Bortolotti and Rossella Gottardo.
It served as a prominent platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration, facilitating groundbreaking advancements in hair testing and analysis. In this special issue of Drug Testing and Analysis, we aim to showcase the remarkable manuscripts presented at this significant event, shedding light on the latest research and highlighting the future directions in this field.
Novel Analytical Techniques: The Verona meeting witnessed the unveiling of cutting-edge analytical techniques, offering enhanced sensitivity, selectivity, and accuracy for drug testing. Remarkable advancements in sample preparation, detection, and identification of drug compounds have been presented. The manuscripts in this section presented novel approaches, such as multianalyte methods and on-line preparation which can enable rapid analysis and improve thorough forensic investigations.
Biomarkers and Pharmacokinetics: The identification and validation of reliable biomarkers and pharmacokinetic studies are fundamental aspects of drug testing and analysis. The impact of hair treatments on the oxidation/decomposition of drugs in hair was also explored, as the long-term fate of drugs incorporated in the keratin matrix. Furthermore, the SoHT meeting in Verona featured research on the identification and quantification of alcohol abuse biomarkers, their stability, and their correlation with exposure and other biomarkers.
Forensic Applications and Interpretation: One of the vital objectives of hair testing is its application in forensic investigations and legal proceedings. The SoHT meeting in Verona emphasized the significance of rigorous interpretation of analytical results and the need for standardized protocols. Manuscripts in this section present advancements in forensic toxicology, and have explored the challenges posed by emerging designer drugs and strategies to combat their proliferation. The pitfalls encountered when the exogenous/endogenous nature of a substance is questioned were presented and discussed. The special issue presents also manuscripts that delve into the ethical implications of drug testing in drug facilitated sexual assaults.
Clinical Applications of hair testing are witnessed by the insight on environmental tobacco smoke exposure, assessed by hair analysis in a population of students and the study of in utero-exposure to drugs of abuse through neonatal hair analysis. Exposure to drugs was also important in cases of child abuse/neglect, when the clinical purpose of hair testing merge with its forensic applications.
The legal framework surrounding hair testing and the achievement of guidelines to ensure fairness, accuracy, and confidentiality in drug testing practices have also been discussed,and the SoHT consensus on general hair testing and testing for drugs of abuse was presented at the meeting and published as a Letter to the Editor.
In conclusion, the special issue of Drug Testing and Analysis, featuring manuscripts from the SoHT–GTFI meeting in Verona 2022, reflects the remarkable advancements achieved in this field. The manuscripts provide valuable insights into novel analytical techniques, biomarkers, pharmacokinetics, forensic applications, and ethical considerations. As we embrace these advancements, we pave the way for a safer, healthier society, where drug testing and analysis serve as powerful tools in protecting public health and maintaining integrity in various sectors. The research presented in this special issue will undoubtedly shape the future of drug testing and analysis, fostering collaboration and inspiring further innovation in this crucial area of scientific inquiry.
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