Posted on 22nd Sep 2010 @ 4:27 PM

The Case for Rapid Drug Screening

With state budgets for drug treatment centers suffering repeated cuts in funding, it is more important than ever that drug treatment professionals use the latest in rapid drug testing technology. In schools and private businesses resources are just as scarce, so it is vital that school superintendents and human resource managers find ways to cut expenditures without compromising important drug testing programs.

The solution for the high cost of laboratory tests is rapid drug screening tests for drugs of abuse. Today’s rapid screening tests are 95-99% accurate and rapid screening costs a small fraction of laboratory testing. Not only will the implementation of rapid screening dramatically cut costs, rapid drug screening improves the effectiveness of many drug testing programs.

Rapid drug screens provide reliable results in less than five minutes and when a drug user is faced with an immediate and positive result, the denial of drug abuse becomes very difficult. In any event, any delay in testing for drugs abuse can cause the evidence of drug abuse to be lost.

Below is a simple example of the difference in costs between rapid screening drug tests and more expensive laboratory drug tests. The example is based on testing for the” NIDA 5” drugs of abuse – PCP, Opiates, Marijuana, Cocaine and Amphetamines. In this example we will test ten people for the NIDA 5 drugs of abuse.

Laboratory tests will run anywhere from $20-$50 and more for a five-panel test, so testing ten people will cost $200-$500+. Rapid screening tests will run $4-$6 for each five panel test, so testing ten people will cost $40-$60. Not only does rapid drug screening yield enormous savings versus lab testing, rapid screening provide results in five minutes as opposed lab tests which will take several days to yield a result.

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