What is drug testing?
Some schools, hospitals, or places of employment conduct drug testing.There are a number of ways this can be done, including: pre-employment testing, random testing, reasonable suspicion/causetesting, post-accident testing, return to duty testing, and follow-up testing. This usually involves collecting urine samplesto test for drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, PCP, and opiates. Following models established in the workplace, some schools have initiatedrandom drug testing and/or reasonable suspicion/cause testing. During random testing schoolsselect, using a random process (like flipping a coin), one or more individuals from the student population to undergo drugtesting. Currently, random drug testing can only be conducted among students who participate in competitive extracurricularactivities.
Drug testing is used to find out whether you use or have used drugs. Urine testing is the most popular form of drug testing. Urine testing detects leftover traces of drugs, called metabolites, long after the psychoactive effects (being stoned/ bombed/peaking) of the drug, and the drug itself, may have left your body. Passing a drug test means that either all traces of the drug have been metabolised (processed) by your body or that the testing procedure isn’t complex enough to detect these traces.
Some schools, hospitals, or places of employment conduct drug testing. There are a number of ways this can be done, including: pre-employment testing, random testing, reasonable suspicion/cause testing, post-accident testing, return to duty testing, and follow-up testing. This usually involves collecting urine samples to test for drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, PCP, and opiates. Following models established in the workplace, some schools have initiated random drug testing and/or reasonable suspicion/cause testing. During random testing schools select, using a random process (like flipping a coin), one or more individuals from the student population to undergo drug testing. Currently, random drug testing can only be conducted among students who participate in competitive extracurricular activities. Reasonable suspicion/cause testing involves a school requiring a student to provide a urine specimen when there is sufficient evidence to suggest that the student may have use
