What is the advantage of saliva testing? Saliva testing is looking for the parent drug the active ingredient in the drug itself.
• Looks for parent drug – the active ingredient itself • No privacy or gender issues • Fast • Inference is on impairment • Can be used anywhere/anytime • Cost effective [Back To Top] • Why would I use saliva testing in preference to urine testing? Saliva drug testing is looking for the parent drug in the system, whereas urine drug testing is looking for the metabolite of the drug. In laymans terms this means that saliva is looking for the ‘active ingredient’ and urine is looking for the leftovers of the drug after it has been processed by the body. The inference is that if you are detecting the active parent drug, then there is a distinct possibility that the subject is currently being affected by the drug and has taken it within the past few hours.
