Safe Injection Facilities on the Rise? New York City just opened the first sanctioned Safe Injection Facilities in December. A safe injection facility provides needles and a space for addicts […]

Marijuana Impaired Driving: Another Look Four years ago we wrote a blog article “Facts About Marijuana Impaired Driving”, which made several interesting points: • There is no correlation between THC levels […]

Record Increase in Drug Overdose Deaths, Big Pharma Settles In our last blog article about the X-Waiver we said experts predicted that drug overdose deaths had increased during the COVID […]

The Perfect Storm One of the consequences of the Covid pandemic that we have experienced for the past year is an increase in drug and opioid use and correspondingly an […]

Accuracy, Sensitivity and Specificity of COVID Testing In previous blog articles we have discussed how the accuracy of drug test kits is measured. We’ve discussed the concepts of specificity and […]

Oregon Decriminalizes Drug Possession. On November 3, 2020, voters in Oregon voted Yes on Proposition 110 to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs, including heroin, cocaine, and […]

EBT Calibration: The most misunderstood term in breath alcohol testing One of the most important responsibilities of a Breath Alcohol Technician (BAT) is to ensure that the Evidential Breath Tester […]

From “Semi-Retired” to “Mostly-Retired,” and a new President. I think that I am typical of many business owners in that I’ve found it hard to leave the business into which […]

Preparing for the CDL Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse The CDL Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse will be operational on January 6, 2020. The clearinghouse will be a database of positive drug […]

Fentanyl Safety Information for Law Enforcement Fentanyl is a dangerous synthetic opioid, 100 times more potent than morphine; a lethal dose is 2 mg. Law Enforcement and First Responder personnel […]