Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pregnant Black patients were significantly more likely to have urine drug screens collected vs. other races and ...

An immunoassay (IA) test is a type of urine drug test (UDT) that can screen for phencyclidine, which people also call PCP or angel dust. This testing method is quick, easy to use, and cost effective.

For peripartum urine drug screening, removing some indications and implementing a clinician-facing clinical decision support tool reduced disparities between Black and white patients, a quality ...

A 14-year-old boy presented unresponsive to a children’s hospital after a presumed fentanyl overdose. His urine drug screen was negative in the emergency department, including opiates. While in the ...

A new mother from Alabama is warning pregnant patients after she says eating an "everything bagel" for breakfast before giving birth to her second child upended her family last spring. It all stemmed ...

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB-864 on August 22, making California the first state to require a urine drug screening for fentanyl in the emergency room if the hospital conducts a urine drug screening ...

Urine drug test (UDT) data can generate timely estimates of overdose deaths, a new study suggests. The study, published in JAMA Network Open by specialty lab Millennium Health and The Ohio State ...

The U.S. Defense Department issued a memo on Feb. 17, warning service members to avoid eating poppy seeds because doing so may result in a positive urine test for the opiate codeine. Addiction and ...

Perinatal care differs by race and ethnicity, with greater disparities in care for more stigmatizing conditions such as depression and substance use, according to a retrospective study. For example, ...

Which drug tests are best? There are many reasons for a portable drug test. Some businesses require drug tests for employment or following an on-site accident. School sports teams may do a random ...