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 […]

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. 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 […]

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 […]