Oct 22, 2020 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Earlier in September, a series of police raids that took place in London and Brampton resulted in the arrests of 18 suspects who were allegedly operating an illegal fentanyl ring. During this operation, police seized $725,330 worth of fentanyl and methamphetamine, as...
Oct 20, 2020 | Drug & Alcohol Information, Drug & Alcohol Testing News
The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that an employee who has consented to drug testing has no cause to take legal action against the employer on grounds of invasion of privacy after the employer required the employee to submit to a directly-observed urine collection...
Oct 14, 2020 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
In January 2019, policemen spotted a car in Martensville, a rural area just outside Saskatoon shortly after midnight. They observed the vehicle for about ten minutes before effecting the stop and did not observe anything unusual or suspicious about the driver’s...
Oct 7, 2020 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
By Joseph Jones, Ph.D, NRCC-TC, Vice President Laboratory Operations Fingernail, a keratinized protein like hair, is emerging as a popular specimen type for drug and alcohol testing. Using fingernail samples for toxicological analysis and pharmacokinetic studies has...
Oct 1, 2020 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Canadian student-athletes who are connoisseurs of cannabis now have a reason to celebrate. They will no longer be ousted from sports teams for its consumption. Two years after cannabis became legal in Canada — now for both recreational and medical purposes, the...
Sep 24, 2020 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
While deaths due to drunk driving have declined in Saskatchewan over the past few years, a considerable number of impaired drivers are still caught each month. To put this into perspective, the province saw 21 impaired driving-related deaths and 332 injuries in the...
