By Tim Monahan NDASA is actively engaged in seeking a safety carve-out to protect public safety through continued testing for THC should the U.S. Department of Justice succeed in forcing the Drug Enforcement Administration to reschedule marijuana, against the findings...
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No duty? You win! The legal concept of duty in workplace drug testing
By William J. Judge, JD, LL.M., and Nick Hartman, Drug Screening Compliance Institute Background It has been estimated that as many as 45 million workplace drug tests are conducted each year in the United States. The most recent Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index...
Fentanyl and fentanyl analogs: Prevalence and challenges
By Sabra Jones and Chris Heartsill, Regional Toxicology Liaisons, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Regions 5 and 7 Per the Centers for Disease Control, overdose deaths remain the leading cause of injury-related deaths in the United States1 and fentanyl...
“They never trained me for this!” What to do if what happens during the collection is not in the regulations
By Patrice Kelly, Senior Policy Executive Adviser, NDASA, (on detail from the US Department of Transportation) The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) regulation, 49 CFR Part 40 (Part 40), and most collector training courses are written to address what...
Case Study: Reducing onboarding time and solving staffing challenges
Working together to ensure frontline healthcare workers are safe and healthy By Labcorp Background Like many hospitals and health systems, a large academic health system with 13 hospitals and many practices and clinics was facing hiring and staffing challenges. The...
Why is impairment-detection technology like Moneyball?
By Rob Schiller, CEO, Impairment Science, Inc., developer of the DRUID® fitness-for-duty app It might seem nonsensical to equate the evaluation of an employee’s fitness for on-the-job duty with the evaluation of a professional baseball player’s ability – but it’s not....
5 compelling reasons you should reinvigorate your drug testing program
By Premier Biotech This information is provided for educational purposes only. Reader retains full responsibility for the use of the information contained herein. Over the past several years, some employers have made the misguided decision to cut back on their drug...
NDASA’s public comments on the proposed rescheduling of marijuana – Part 2
The Honorable Merrick B. Garland Attorney GeneralU.S. Department of Justice The Honorable Anne Milgram, Administrator Drug Enforcement Administration8701 Morrissette DriveSpringfield, Virginia 22152 Submitted via Electronic DocketJuly 17 , 2024 Re: Part 2 of 2 of the...
In memoriam: a tribute to Joe Plaia
The National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association and the entire drug testing industry lost one of the all-time greatest of our profession when dear friend and associate Joe Plaia of Alabama passed away July 7 at the age of 72. Joe worked for more than 30 years at...
Marijuana legalization, the DEA and harmful, unintended consequences
By Bill Current, Founder of the Current Consulting Group It’s been said that elections have consequences, including unintended consequences that can be harmful, nonetheless. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), at President Biden’s direction, intends to...