A follow-up article on The Wall Street Journal talked about, among other things, what the Wall Streeters may have done to beat drug tests. In a previous post, we featured the findings of drug-testing firm Sterling Infosystems Inc., which revealed that cocaine use in Wall Street has gone down.
Deal Journal talked to Sterling’s director of occupational health services, John Mallios. Among the things that Mallios discussed was how people tried to beat drug tests. Making these tactics known ought to make drug-testing companies, employers and other such stakeholders be more careful about conducting drug tests, ensuring that these things do not happen.
One option taken by some people who are asked to undergo urine drug testing is diluting their sample. Dilution reduces the concentration of drugs or drug metabolites in the sample, through the addition of fluid. In order to prevent this from happening, drug-testing facilities ask people to collect specimen in a room that does not have a sink, or where the toilet water is tinted.
Others choose to substitute their urine with another person’s urine, or with a synthetic sample. Some drug testing facilities frisk those who are testing to make sure that they are not carrying anything with them into the collection area. At any rate, apparently there are those who succeed in placing another person’s sample in their collection cup, or use such things as liquid or powdered synthetic urine.
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