Feb 21, 2020 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
A new study carried out by researchers at the Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health demonstrated that participants showed no detectable signs of impairment on the day after they smoked cannabis, although they still tested positive for its main...
Feb 18, 2020 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
In a recent opinion article published in the Vancouver Sun, author and journalist Daphne Bramham discussed the potential issues arising with the use of certain words in the context of discussion of Canada’s opioid crisis, and how this colours what solutions are used....
Feb 13, 2020 | Drug & Alcohol Testing & Canadian Law, Drug & Alcohol Testing News
In a recent opinion piece published by the London Free Press, the labour lawyer Howard Levitt discusses his concerns regarding a recent order set by a British Columbia court as an ‘unfortunate and dangerous’ precedent for employers concerned with public safety....
Feb 11, 2020 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
A couple from Courtenay whose 26-year-old son, Ryan Hedican, died after smoking fentanyl-laced heroin have requested to change the coroner’s report on his death to say he was poisoned. John and Jennifer Hedican, Ryan’s parents, have stated that holding the senior...
Feb 5, 2020 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
An Illinois-based trucker has recently filed a class-action suit in Chicago against the Florida-based CBD gummy manufacturer ‘Just Brands USA’ after losing his job due to a failed drug test. According to the driver, Trevor Darrow, the JustCBD gummies he...
Jan 31, 2020 | Department of Transportation (DOT), Drug & Alcohol Testing News
On January 1, 2020 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services established the structure to include oral fluid specimens in Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs, this means truck drivers could be looking at oral fluid testing in the...
