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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Comparison Between Hair and Saliva-Drug-Testing

Drug test is used for examination of specimen to detect the presence of drug or to determine prior drug abuse. Now-a-days, there are various drug tests available. Hair and saliva drug test are among them.

Characteristics of both the hair and oral drug test are:


Hair drug test is highly accurate. Generally, it is used in forensic studies. This drug test is used by many organizations to find history of drug abuse. To know about short term usage of the drug, the saliva drug test can be used. This test is used in businesses, schools and in sports.

Both, the tests are donor friendly and impossible to adulterate. There are some specific characteristics about applications of usage in both the tests.


Easy to conduct:

The procedure of the both tests is easy. It is necessary to collect the hair and sending it to lab to the drug test in hair drug test. Saliva-drug test is easy to conduct and collection of specimen is easy and it is cost effective.

Drug detection's duration:

You can detect the presence of drug even after 90 days from the time of consumption by using urine test. It gives effective results so that is why it is widely spread.

This saliva drug test is useful to know about recent drug abuse. And this test's detection duration is 1 to 2 days from time of consumption.


Skills needed to conduct the test:

A person who conducts the hair test, should have relevant knowledge about it. Generally, this test is conducted in high equipped labs.

In case of saliva-drug test, it can be conducted any where like home or lab.


Accuracy:

There is 100 percent accuracy in hair drug test and this test's results will be useful for drug abuse as evidence.

Saliva-drug test results is used in post accident situations and there is 95 to 98 percent accuracy in this test result.


These are the differences between hair drug test and saliva-drug test. Based on the situations, one can follow any test to get effective results.

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