KNOXVILLE, TN: May 18, 2018 – AlcoPro, Inc., a leading supplier of drug and alcohol testing products and training services has announced their intent to acquire Kahntact USA, Inc., a leading medical device supplier to the occupational health and medical industries. The Knoxville-based AlcoPro specializes in selling drug and alcohol testing products to law enforcement, […]
Record Breaking Fentanyl Bust
Record Breaking Fentanyl Bust New York Post Article by Rebecca Rosenburg September 18, 2017 Law enforcement agents seized a record haul of street-grade fentanyl from a Queens building — marking the largest such bust in New York City history, officials announced Monday. NYPD and DEA agents recovered 64 kilograms of the lethal drug from a […]
Drugged Driving Eclipses Drunken Driving
Article appearing 4/26/2017 on the Washington Post website and written by Ashley Halsey III. For the first time, statistics show that drivers killed in crashes are more likely to be on drugs than drunk. Forty-three percent of drivers tested in fatal crashes in 2015 had used a legal or illegal drug, eclipsing the 37 percent who […]
Expanded Opioid Testing: Regulation Changes
Expanded Opioid Testing: Regulation Changes. HHS Expanded Opioid Testing and Allowance of Oral Fluid Testing. On Monday, January 23, 2017 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) agencies issued a notice for revisions to the the mandatory guidelines for federal workplace drug trusting programs […]
Greater Share of U.S. Workers Testing Positive for Illicit Drugs
Detection of illicit drugs increased slightly both for general and ‘safety-sensitive’ workforce. The share of U.S. workers testing positive for illicit drug use reached its highest level in a decade, according to data from millions of workplace drug tests administered by Quest Diagnostics Inc., one of the nation’s largest medical-screening laboratories. Read more of this […]
FMCSA Random Drug Testing Rate Lowered for 2016
FMCSA Random Drug Testing Rate Lowered for 2016 On December 21, 2015, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced the lowering of the required 2016 testing rate for random drug testing from 50% to 25% of the average number of driver positions. For 3 consecutive years the positive rate for controlled substances, as reported […]
Development of Hair Testing Guidelines for Drug Abuse Authorized
Development of Hair Testing Guidelines for Drug Abuse Authorized DATIA article, published on December 8, 2015 On Dec. 4, 2015, Congress passed H.R. 22, an act to authorize funds for federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes. Specifically, hair testing has been authorized in conducting pre-employment testing for use of […]
AlcoPro Closed to Observe 4th of July
July 3, 2015…AlcoPro will be closed to observe Independence Day
New Drug 15 Times More Potent Than Heroin
A new and powerful drug that is 15 times stronger than heroin has made its way onto streets and resulted in a…
Xanax Emergency Room Visits Doubled
The number of emergency department visits involving non-medical use of the sedative alprazolam doubled from 57,419 to 124,902 during the years 2005 to 2010, and then…