Feb 4, 2021 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
In response to increasing incidence of opioid use and overdoses in Nova Scotia, its provincial health authority has launched the new Drug Harms Alert program aimed to disseminate information regarding unexpected drug use-related harms across communities in the...
Feb 2, 2021 | Drug & Alcohol Testing & Canadian Law, Drug & Alcohol Testing News
In a series of recent arbitration decisions regarding legal testing for post-incident alcohol and drug testing, Arbitrators Andrew Sims and David McPhillips have reviewed and provided clarification for the legal test for post-incident alcohol and drug testing. The...
Jan 29, 2021 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
In a recent unreported labour arbitration award, Caressant Care Nursing & Retirement Homes and Christian Labour Association of Canada, the arbitrator, Dana Randall, upheld the decision that the employer’s mandatory COVID-19 testing policy was a reasonable exercise...
Jan 26, 2021 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
A new study carried out by Millennium Health, an accredited specialty laboratory specializing in medication monitoring and drug testing services, has revealed that there is a significant increase in urine drug test positivity for methamphetamine, which was found alone...
Jan 21, 2021 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
The Canadian R&D company Entheon Biomedical has set out to investigate the therapeutic use of the psychedelic dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in treating addiction disorders. Specifically, the company has commissioned a clinical trial investigating the safety and...
Jan 19, 2021 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
A recent report created by Nova Scotia’s provincial health department to evaluate which illicit drugs are impacting communities across the province has been kept confidential by the government and has not been made available to the general public. The report, compiled...
