- FRIDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) — Individuals turn in continuance beating
drug tests need only turn to the Internet to find dozens of products that
claim to help them transact so, scientists have found.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Houston Medical School plan
to present a detailed list of drug-test cheating options, along with
sophisticated counter-measure tests that can be carried on by laboratory
scientists, at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry's annual
meeting, Monday, in Washington, D.C.

“People be obliged been trying to paste on drug tests on this account that decades,” said Alan
H.B. Wu, director of chemistry and toxicology at the University of
California, San Francisco, who was not involved in the research. “The
general population is indifferent, inasmuch as they're clean and don't need to
worry one’s self about that. But, if you're addicted to opiates or painkillers, your
job is dependent on clean urine, and these people go to great lengths to
experiment to pass that test.”

“These companies prey on that mentality with products that
enable them to cheat, and laboratories, on the other hand, employ
countermeasures to try to detect that practice,” Wu added.

Drug testing basically started in the 1980s, after President Ronald
Reagan issued a mandate ordering federal agencies to have drug-free work
places. The federal government and many other employers now have mandatory
drug testing. Today, some 20 million employees are screened annually in
the United States for illicit drugs, and maybe 1 percent to 2 percent of
samples come out positive, Wu said.

Time-tested ways to entrap put on drug tests include using someone otherwise's
urine, adding drain cleaner, disinfectant or even shed water, vinegar or hand
soap to the urine sample, or drinking herbal tea. Some population have even
tried to smuggle drug-free urine hidden in their armpits or inject
drug-free urine into their bladders, the researchers said.

As a result, Wu said, “animal-water discovery sites started taking away in any degree
source of water, putting bluing agents in the toilet bowls themselves, so
methods have gotten more sophisticated.”

The researchers cited some examples of the quick fixes that can be
found on more than 1,000 Web sites, products such as “Ready Clean Drug
Detox Drink” and “Urine Luck.” There are not only so advertisements for synthetic
bottled urine.

In addition, they reported, Internet sites sell a fairly inexpensive
variety of fluids or pills to flush out the system. And in consequence there are
products, through names like Stealth, that have power to be added to the urine sample
after it is collected.

But for each measure, in that place's often a countermeasure, according to lead
author Amitava Dasgupta, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine
at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School, who outlines a host of
them in his presentation.

The toxicology arsenal ranges from recipes for detecting nitrites in
urine to spot color tests and test strips that show doctored urine.

Dasgupta said, in a prepared account, that only 2 percent of folks
try cheating on drug tests. But, he added “There are always a few bad
apples, and if you slip on't catch them,
they can spoil a workplace.”

“It's a minority that succeed, moreover it's certainly not zero,” Wu added.
“We don'cheek by jowl know how many are successful, on this account that if we knew that, they
wouldn't have being successful.”

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