HAIR FOLLICLE ALCOHOL AND DRUGS TESTING
HAIR FOLLICLE ALCOHOL AND DRUGS TESTING SERVICES
Psychemedics pioneered the use of hair testing over 30 years ago, after years of research proved that drugs and alcohol deposited in the hair could be accurately measured.
Hair analysis is a test in which a sample of a person’s hair is sent to a laboratory to detect illicit drug and alcohol use.
The technology capitalises on the way the body metabolises ingested drugs and alcohol as they flow through the bloodstream and deposit in the cortex of the hair. Hair is stable, and the deposits are permanently embedded in the hair, so hair acts like a tape recorder — “recording” drug and alcohol deposits in proportion to the use of drugs and alcohol over time.
AWDTS is totally professional and unique in all alcohol and drug testing matters
With vast experience in detection, prevention, counselling and rehabilitation
Fully compliant with collection and despatch requirements of Australian Standards relating to drug testing
AWDTS consists of forensic practitioners who have spent their professional lives in drug and alcohol testing
Hair testing analyses for drugs and alcohol within the hair shaft, rather than body fluids like urine or saliva, to determine whether alcohol or drugs of abuse are present.
The primary difference between a hair follicle test and urine test is that there is a wider window of detection with hair.
Cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates, and PCP are rapidly excreted and usually undetectable in urine 72 hours after use. Rather than the hours or days covered by a body fluid test, a hair test covers a period of months, ensuring that a drug user cannot evade the test by simply abstaining for a few days.
WHAT DRUGS CAN BE FOUND IN A STANDARD HAIR DRUG TEST?
Cocaine
Marijuana
Methamphetamine
Ecstasy (MDMA)
Eve (MDEA)
Phencyclidine (PCP)
Opiates
(heroin, codeine, morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone)
HOW DOES A HAIR FOLLICLE TEST WORK?
Psychemedics requires the smallest sample in the industry, snipping above the scalp. No hair is pulled out of the scalp, and the hair follicle is not disturbed.
Sample collection is a completely painless, quick procedure.
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