Drug Testing Index

Drug TestingIndexTM

Lessons Employers Can Learn

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Agenda

•  What is the Drug Testing Index™

•  Key Findings

•  Urine Positivity Rates

•  Oral Fluid Positivity Rates

•  Hair Positivity Rates

•  Summary

•  Questions

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Drug Testing Index™ (DTI) Specimen Demographics

Source

• Routine, hair, oral fluid and urine specimens submitted for workplace drugs of abuse testing – Workplace – Rehab/Criminal Justice excluded – Point-of-care (POCT) confirmations excluded (excludes high positivity)

•  Laboratory positive data (prior to Medical Review Officer review) – Does not indicate whether there is an “alternative medical explanation” – Includes employer/MRO blinds

•  Two Major Groups – Federally Mandated, Safety-Sensitive Workforce – U.S. General Workforce

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National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)

•  Annual survey of the civilian, non-institutionalized population of the United States aged 12 years old or older

•  Presents national estimates of rates of use, numbers of users, and other measures related to illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco products

•  Self-reported use

•  Approximately 67,500 persons are interviewed in NSDUH annually


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Common Matrices in Drugs of Abuse Testing

•  Urine testing – Detects recent use (previous 24-72 hours)

•  Oral fluid testing – Detects recent use (previous 24-48 hours)

•  Hair testing – Detects a pattern of repetitive use (up to 90 days, based on testing proximal

1.5” head hair)

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Key findings

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Key Findings in First-Half of 2012 vs. 2011

•  Pre-Employment U.S. General Workforce positivity up 5.7%

•  Random U.S. General Workforce positivity down 5.8%

•  Marijuana continues as most commonly detected drug

•  Oral fluid finding more marijuana positives (up 26%) – 70% more positives in oral fluid than in urine in the first-half of 2012

•  Cocaine positivity continues to decline

•  Amphetamines positivity continues to increase – Driven by Amphetamine positives


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Urine positivity rates

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Annual Positivity Rates Urine Drug Tests


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Positivity Rates by Testing Category Urine Drug Tests


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Positivity Rates by Testing Reason Urine Drug Tests – For Federally-Mandated, Safety-Sensitive Workforce


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Positivity Rates by Testing Reason Urine Drug Tests – For General U.S. Workforce


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Impact of Drug Testing Programs (Data from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health)

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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies. National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002-2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

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Positivity Rates by Drug Category Urine Drug Tests – For Federally-Mandated, Safety-Sensitive Workforce, as a Percentage of All Such Tests


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Positivity Rates by Drug Category Urine Drug Tests – For U.S. General Workforce, as a Percentage of All Such Tests


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Amphetamines Positivity Urine Drug Tests


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Oral fluid positivity rates

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Positivity Rates By Testing Category Oral Fluid Drug Tests - For U.S. General Workforce


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Positivity Rates by Drug Category Oral Fluid Drug Tests - For U.S. General Workforce, as a Percentage of All Such Tests


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Marijuana Positivity Rates Urine and Oral Fluid– U.S. General Workforce


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Possible Drivers for Marijuana Positivity Differences

•  Oral fluid collections are observed – Curbs evasive donor behavior

•  New collection and testing technology with Oral-Eze®

– Sample adequacy indicator informs collector when there is desired sample volume

– Different/improved buffer preservative solution


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Hair positivity rates

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Positivity Rates by Testing Category Hair Drug Tests - For U.S. General Workforce


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Positivity Rates by Drug Category Hair Drug Tests - For U.S. General Workforce


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Positivity Rates by Testing Reason Hair Drug Tests - For U.S. General Workforce


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Summary

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In Conclusion

•  Drug users tend to work for employers without a drug testing program

•  Data from the DTI and NSDUH suggests that drug testing is a deterrent to drug use by employees and applicants

•  DTI data and some media reports suggest that it may be harder to find drug-free applicants

•  Widening gap between oral fluid and urine marijuana positivity

•  New oral fluid testing technology may help in identifying more marijuana users

•  Hair testing continues to have a positivity rate more than 1.5x higher than urine

•  Random positivity in both urine and hair have declined

•  Amphetamines positivity continues to increase

•  Cocaine positivity continues to decrease


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Questions

R. H. Barry Sample, Ph.D., D-FTCB Director of Science and Technology [email protected]

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