20/03/2012 by UKDrugTesting.

This is a question www.ukdrugtesting.co.uk  are being asked on a regular basis, due to the increasing problem of Ketamine misuse in the UK.

What is ketamine ? Ketamine (also known as Special K or K ) is a dissociative veterinary anaesthetic / horse tranquiliser which is highly sedative. It is increasingley being abused in the UK.

What is the detection period for Ketamine in urine ?

Ketamine can be detected in a urine sample on a drug test for between 3-5 days from last use.

The sensitivity of the urine drug test for ketamine is usually 1000ng/ml

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The Ketamine detection periods on saliva and hair are different.

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10/02/2012 by UKDrugTesting.

Most employers would rather consider a saliva drug testing kit to the more traditional urine collection and drug testing procedures for workplace drug testing, and there is no reason why a saliva drug test should not be used for most employment drug testing.

Pre-employment drug screening is a little different. Employers are looking to screen for a longer period than is obtainable with instant near patient saliva drug tests. Urine drug screening will extend the detection period to 3 to 5 days for most drug groups. This will pick up more recreational drug use than saliva drug testing. If the drug screen has been notified, then the majority of potential employees will avoid recreational drug use in the week before the medical. To effectively screen for recreational drug use in this situation, the notification to attend for medical screening should be minimal. Otherwise you are only screening for hardened regular or dependent drug users, and the range of drug membranes included in the screen, should best reflect this.

We are commonly asked what to include in the employment drug screen, as there is no HSE list or specific guidance on what drugs should be included in the drug test, and what can be ignored. Our advice is to include the range of common recreational drugs which can affect performance, namely Cannabis, Cocaine, Amphetamines (and Methamphetamines) and opiates. We also recommend Benzodiazepines should be part of occupational drug screening, as most sedative tranquilisers affect performance, as can sedatives taken as sleeping pills. These should certainly be included in HSE high risk occupational drug screens examples being machine operatives, line side certification, PSV, HGV etc.

It may be worth contacting your local drugs team and finding out which drug groups are prevalent in your local area. We have noticed that Ketamine has started to become increasingly prevalent over the last 12 months and causes problems in an employment setting, as it highly sedative. Ketamine is in fact a veterinary tranquiliser, which gives you some idea how sedative it is.  An increasing number of drug screens now include Ketamine, and we are being asked for drug testing kits that incorporate Ketamine now on a daily basis, although currently this option is only available in our urine drug testing kits.

SAMHSA have recently moved further in favour of saliva drug screening to become the first line method for federal employee testing in the US. This should see further developments in saliva drug screening with new drug test membrane options for saliva testing becoming available and a standardisation of the saliva drug cut off levels to enable direct brand comparison and greater covergence in testing results and quality.

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07/12/2011 by admin.

We received this question about cocaine test strips recently by e-mail

Question

”Do the cocaine test strips come with instructions on how to read the results and what is the detection period for these?”

Answer

”The urine cocaine test strips that we supply will pick up cocaine in the system 3 to 5 days from the last use. We send out full instruction on how to perform the drug test and if you need any help please give us a call ”

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07/11/2011 by admin.

This is a frequently asked question

Question

The urine drug test is positive. Could this be a false positive ?

Answer

A genuine false positive on a urine drug test is in fact quite uncommon. The advances in drug testing membranes means that most of the test membranes are now very specific for the drug detected. There are some drugs that may produce a false positive on some of the drug test membranes. For further information regarding specific drug test membranes please contact our customer services team at UKDrugtesting 

or visit our UKDrugTesting FAQ page for more drug testing FAQs

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