A new diagnostic kit allows parents to use their teen’s hair to test for drug use, but some local advocates raise doubts about the effectiveness of take-home kits. “I don’t think they have been major ...

Granting requests made by driver trade unions, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has re-opened the public comment period for a request made by some of the country’s largest carriers to ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. ­­­— A hair drug-testing proposed rule has been forwarded to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review, a top official with the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health ...

Revised guidelines for drug-testing hair scheduled for publishing next year. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has again pushed back its ...

The word “mandatory” has been batted around in headlines and social media posts the last few weeks describing long-in-the-works reforms to driver drug testing protocol. But what, exactly, will be ...

The biggest bother for cannabis consumers is a drug test. On the one hand, cannabinoids such as CBD & Delta-8 THC are legal, and researchers are on a constant quest to study their medicinal properties ...

This story appears in the March 27 print edition of Transport Topics. A proposed rule that would allow trucking companies to conduct government-certified pre-employment drug testing using hair samples ...

Recent news has shown a cohort of Senators pressing the Department of Health and Human Services to issue technical guidance for hair-sample testing — a required first step, according to the Department ...

With more than 230,000 positive drug tests since 2020, how the trucking industry detects drivers’ drug use is an important topic. Currently, Department of Transportation drug testing relies entirely ...

Since 1988, federal regulations have required commercial drivers to submit urine samples for pre-employment, random, and post-accident testing for prohibited drugs. Twenty years on, the Government ...

China’s health department will promote a drug testing method which uses hair instead of blood or urine samples to test for drug use, according to the developer, the Yunnan Institute for Drug Abuse.