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Myths and Truths about Breathalyzers
by Nate Rodnay | March 04, 2010
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Breathalyzer is a portable device mainly used for alcohol detection among youngsters, students, workers, drivers etc. Alcohol testing is performed at offices, workplaces, schools, colleges, and on highways to prevent alcohol related crimes, accidents, and injuries.
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Benefits of Multi Panel Drug Test
by Nate Rodnay | March 02, 2010
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
The drug abuse among people, employees, and especially among teenagers is a cause of concern and several drug testing methods are used to check drug abuse.
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How Drug Addiction Is Different Than Drug Dependence
by Nate Rodnay | February 22, 2010
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
The prescription drugs and Over-The-Counter drugs are effective in treatment of various kinds of diseases, disorders, reduce pain etc. But besides being used for medical purposes, these drugs have also got strong tendency to result in addiction.
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Methods of Alcohol Testing
by Nate Rodnay | February 10, 2010
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Alcohol is widely abused substance besides drugs and causes large number of fatalities every year. Although alcohol consumption to some extent is permitted by law, its abuse can lead to alcohol related crimes and accidents.
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Common Drug Testing Methods
by Nate Rodnay | February 01, 2010
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Drug addiction poses a serious threat to health and well being of an individual and to entire society. Drug abuse can destroy lives of youngsters, ruins families, and leads to loss of productivity and efficiency at workplaces.
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How Drugs Work
by Nate Rodnay | February 01, 2010
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Drugs have become an important element in the history of medicine to cure or increase the immunity in humans against various diseases. Due to continuous innovation, research and development in the past 4-5 decades, drugs are now available to cure majority of diseases.
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Types of Alcohol Detectors
by Nate Rodnay | January 30, 2010
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Alcohol addiction has severe harmful effects on physical health, mental health, and on society. Alcohol testing is done at workplaces, institutions, schools, industries, and colleges to prevent alcohol related accidents, crime, and injuries etc. There are a variety of alcohol detectors present in m
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How to Conduct Buprenorphine Drug Test
by Nate Rodnay | January 18, 2010
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Buprenorphine has medical uses when used under prescription. It is also used for pain relief and detoxification. Buprenorphine is a semi-synthetic opioid and has partial agonist and partial antagonist effects. When taken in low-doses, buprenorphine creates similar effects to opioids.
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Know the Cut off Concentrations of Common Drugs of Abuse
by Nate Rodnay | January 09, 2010
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
The drug cut off concentration level is the defined level of drug or metabolite concentration in the specimen. Any concentration of drug or metabolite at or above the cut off level leads to positive result while below leads to a negative result.
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Types of Benzodiazepines Drug Testing
by Nate Rodnay | January 09, 2010
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Benzodiazepines are used for the treatment of insomnia, anxiety, and prevention of seizures (convulsive attack) and muscle spasms. Benzodiazepines are sleep inducing in high doses, reduce anxiety in moderate doses, and are soothing medicine when taken in low doses.
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Drug Testing and Detection Periods of Commonly Abused Drugs
by Nate Rodnay | December 30, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
There are various methods to check for drug abuse by an individual. Various testing methods like urine test, saliva test, hair test, sweat test are done to identify whether or not a specific drug or metabolite (substance formed after processing in body) is present in body.
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Know about Oxycodone Drug Test
by Nate Rodnay | December 30, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Oxycodone is a drug that is used to control severe to moderate pains and as an anti-cough medication. Many people start taking Oxycodone as prescribed drug and eventually get addicted. When continuously exposed to Oxycodone, the body develops tolerance to the drug.
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Types of Methamphetamine Drug Testing
by Nate Rodnay | December 15, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Although Methamphetamine, also called ‘Meth’, has limited medicinal uses but it can also cause addiction.
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Know About Ecstasy (MDMA) Drug Test
by Nate Rodnay | December 14, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
MDMA (ecstasy) is a designer drug first manufactured in 1914 by a German drug company for obesity treatment. MDMA is a commonly abused drug today, also called as adam, hug, beans, and love drug.
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How to Conduct Urine Test for Five Commonly Abused Drugs
by Nate Rodnay | December 08, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Drug abuses have posed a threat to the health and well-being of large number of people. Drug abuse affects the person socially, psychologically, and physically and has harmful effects on society.
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Drug Abuse and Importance of Testing In Teens
by Nate Rodnay | December 08, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
According to Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey conducted during 2008, in America nearly 47% of the teens tasted an illicit drug by the time they complete their high school education.
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Importance of Drug Testing At Home
by Nate Rodnay | December 01, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
A Drug test is scientific examination of urine, hair, and other fluid samples like saliva or sweat from the body, which detects whether a person is taking drugs or not.
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Importance of Youth Drug Testing at High Schools
by Nate Rodnay | November 19, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness
The problem of drug abuse among the young Americans is widespread and is a major concern for the nation. According to Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey conducted during 2008, nearly 47% of the teens tried an illicit drug by the time they finish their high school.
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Know About Cannabis Drug Testing
by Nate Rodnay | November 09, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Cannabis (marijuana) is one of the highly addictive illicit drugs of abuse in the United States. According to National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), there were about 2.2 million persons aged 12 or older who used marijuana for the first time within the past 12 months in 2008.
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Know About Alcohol Testing
by Nate Rodnay | October 28, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness
There are many reasons why U.S. organizations, companies and schools test for alcohol abuse. According to National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), nearly 51.6 percent of Americans aged 12 or older reported being current drinkers of alcohol in the 2008. Because of the rampant alcoholism and i
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How to Conduct hCG Single Test
by Nate Rodnay | October 13, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Pregnancy testing has transformed significantly in the recent times and became simpler and quick. One-Step hCG Single Test is one of the preferred pregnancy detection tests for early detection of pregnancy, as it is highly sensitive, most accurate and simple to use.
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Know About Ten Panel Integrated E-Z Split Key Cup Test
by Nate Rodnay | October 06, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Drug abuse is posing a great threat not only to drug abusers but also to the whole society, as it is affecting people of all ages and groups. According to a report by National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), nearly 20.1 million Americans aged 12 years or older were current drug abusers.
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Throwing light on Fiber Optic Testing
by aefos aefos | October 01, 2009
Category: Business / Industrial Mechanical
At Aefos we design, develop and manufacture fiber optic cleaning systems that ensure accurate fiber optic testing. Also get more information about fiber optic inspection tool, fiber optic kits, ferrule fiber optic, fiber optic products.
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Hair Drug Testing Procedure
by Nate Rodnay | September 29, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness
Hair drug testing is one of the commonly used methods of drug testing to determine the presence or absence of the specified drugs or their metabolized traces.
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Know About Menopause Test
by Nate Rodnay | September 22, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Medicine
Menopause is the permanent cessation of menstruation, usually confirmed when a woman has missed her periods for 12 consecutive months. Perimenopause is the period leading up to menopause, and the 12 months following it.
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How to Take OrAlert Oral Test
by Nate Rodnay | September 01, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Saliva drug test or Oral drug test is the ideal for drug testing at both home and work place. These tests are equivalent to urine drug test in accuracy, process, quick results etc. This is an efficient form of drug testing and enables to employ the random drug testing programs.
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How to Take Methadone Test
by Nate Rodnay | August 28, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness
Prescription drug abuse became a major problem today. According to DEA data, the number of Methadone drug items seized by law enforcement increased from 2,865 in 2001 to 10,361 in 2007, suggesting that Methadone contributed to rise in overdose deaths.
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Know How Nicotine Test Is Conducted
by Nate Rodnay | August 18, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
Nicotine test gives the levels of nicotine addiction or abuse in a person. The drug Nicotine is one of the regularly abused and commercially available drugs in the society. Apart from tobacco smoking, nicotine is also available in forms of nicotine gum, transdermal patches, and nasal sprays.
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How to Avoid Drug Abuse at Workplace
by Nate Rodnay | July 30, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness
A large number of drug addicts are employed today and they are more vulnerable to accidents at workplace. According to Texas Business Today (2006), nearly 64% of all accidents were directly or indirectly related to drug abuse at workplace. Drug abuse at workplace is a serious issue.
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Know About Alcohol Saliva Test
by Nate Rodnay | July 27, 2009
Category: Health and Fitness / Drug Abuse
The fact that nearly half of the automobile and industrial accidents are associated with alcohol abuse in the United States stresses the need to check alcohol abuse at all levels.
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