Remotely administered urine drug screening was found to be feasible in patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who were receiving buprenorphine in remote care settings, according to a cohort study. Of ...

What would San Joaquin County's Measure R do? Respite Center Manager Anita Ydrogo holds up a urine drug testing kit inside Community Medical Center's short-term detox and residential treatment ...

Examination of positive urine drug screens of teenagers was not a reliable predictor for risk for death by external causes, according to a population-based retrospective cohort study published in the ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a more efficient way to find out which new 'designer drugs' are circulating in the community. In a new study, they showed how high-resolution mass spectrometry can be used ...

11 NEWS AT FIVE CONTINUES. WHEN SOMEONE TESTS POSITIVE FOR FENTANYL, YOU’LL ALMOST ALWAYS FIND ANOTHER DRUG. AND IN MARYLAND AND MANY OTHER STATES, WHAT YOU FIND IS COCAINE. THIS JUST ONE REVELATION ...

THEIR SON TO A FENTANYL OVERDOSE. IT WAS A ROUGH ROAD FOR JOSH, AND HE STARTED USING OPIOIDS WHEN HE WAS IN COLLEGE. CAROL AND BOB SIMES WATCHED THEIR SON JOSH STRUGGLE WITH SUBSTANCE MISUSE FOR MUCH ...

G0434 has this for the descriptor: "Drug screen, other than chromatographic; any number of drug classes, by CLIA waived test or moderate complexity test, per patient encounter." For discussion's sake, ...