There are two good reasons to have a Medical Review Officer involved with your drug testing program. Before we discuss those two good reasons, let’s define the term Medical Review Officer (MRO). An MRO is a person who is a licensed physician and who is responsible for receiving and reviewing laboratory results generated by an […]

“Always check the source” was the advice from a professor I had in college. In summary, he said, always go to the source and avoid, if possible, relying on other people’s opinions. Other people can often be wrong, he said. But it’s easy, you say, to just rely on someone’s opinion. And, that opinion may […]

We don’t think employers should stop job applicant drug testing. Mark A.R. Kleiman wrote an article in MSN Money web site expressing the opposite opinion recently. His remarks from the article are in Italics below. Our rebuttal points follow each italicized paragraph. Companies can’t find enough workers. And the research linking passing a drug test to […]

An analysis of 10 million drug tests by Quest Diagnostics reveals some very ominous news if you are an employer who employs people in safety sensitive positions. Don’t know what safety sensitive positions are? We have a blog post further explaining this topic.  And, the analysis reveals the effectiveness of using oral fluid instead of […]

Marijuana’s detrimental effects and unfulfilled promises continue to be exposed. Why is that an important statement? Because its proponents continue to make unfounded claims about its medically-healing properties and its need to be legalized. They ignore death and destruction that increased access to this drug have caused. Employers should be aware of these facts particularly […]