greg nr
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All of my tests are done at a lab. However, some of those, especially the pre-employment screens, are dip tests (same kind you can buy for home) . DoT tests are always sent off to an outside lab and get run through a battery of certified tests. As fast as you can come up with a synthetic, they can detect it. It's like the olympics and doping. The samples that get sent off for lab analysis are much more sensitive.I deal with my employees getting piss tested at work all the time. Drinking tons of water causing a diluted sample counts as a fail. Niacin pills, cranberry juice, creatine, etc don't work on any tests I've seen in many years. My guys do a five panel piss test at a lab, tests for thc, cocaine, pcp, amphetamines and opiates. The best success my guys have is buying a flush kit and doing home tests to make sure you piss clean. The lab worker stands about 2 feet away from them seperated by a curtain so they can hear if you are fiddling with anything. Been dealing with piss tests for 10+ years and have had to let quite a few people go for failing after reading bs on the internet on how to pass. The bigger you are the longer you will take to piss clean. If you decide to use fake piss it needs to be within a certain temp range or will show up as a fail too. My two cents.
But since this is pre-employment, chances are they will use the quick check. The difference in the cost is something like $15 compared to $65. This is just a compliance issue to a lot of employers. A lot of times they don't have an axe to grind, insurers require it so they conduct them, but they try to keep the costs low.
Dip tests are barely tests, and have no way to detect synthetics. If you fail it, they will send a sample off to a lab to ensure it wasn't a false positive. But if you pass they throw out the sample. Hope for a dip test.
Oh, and I pass them because I don't take drugs. I'm hoping to exit the corporate/govt world and have a happy retirement though; hence learning to grow.