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Drug Testing
Our drug-testing services consist
of three components:
1. Administrative Services
2. Specimen Collection
Services
3. Specimen Analysis
1.
Administrative Services
• Pre-administrative program
assessment
• Confidential, objective random
selection
• Database management
• 24/7 client and customer support
• Secure, user-friendly electronic
results reporting
• Other periodic reports as needed
2.
Specimen Collection Services
Drug Free Sport's specimen collection
services free your organization’s staff from having
to compromise their relationship with participants by serving
as the specimen collector. Our service takes your staff
out of the sensitive "policing" role of policy
enforcer.
Our independent contractors are certified
sports drug-testing collectors and specifically follow our
clients’ policies. Collection fees are negotiated based
on testing volume — the more tests per test date, the
lower the cost per test.
Drug Free Sport equips collection
crews and the drug-testing area with all necessary materials
and forms to conduct specimen collections. Drug Free Sport
procures, stores and transports all supplies and specimens
for testing.
Drug Free Sport can also provide
on-site collection training services to facilitate in-house
collections.
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Specimen Analysis
Drug Free Sport contracts with Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) certified laboratories to provide clients with the highest quality and the most sophisticated science and technology available for the detection of drugs and other substances commonly used by athletes today. Through these partnering efforts with highly qualified laboratories, Drug Free Sport offers several drug-testing panels specifically designed to address drug use in sport. In addition, Drug Free Sport will work with a client to customize drug-testing panels as needed.
Testing for drugs of abuse is relatively
straightforward. The standard for drug testing is the immunoassay
screen, a quick method of determining the presence or absence
of a drug or metabolite in a urine specimen. A positive
screen is followed by confirmation using gas chromatography
or liquid chromatography with mass spectrometric detection
(GC/MS or LC/MS), a very specialized procedure that specifically
identifies the drug and/or metabolite. Although other biological
specimens (e.g., hair, oral fluid) are being used for drug
detection, urine continues to be the specimen of choice.
Laboratories have extensive scientific basis for the testing
methodology and scientists have developed extremely sophisticated
instruments and procedures utilizing urine specimens to
effectively detect drugs.
Sports drug testing is a unique area
within this field. Both the scope of testing provided and
the analytical techniques applied are among the most sophisticated
in the field. When testing for performance-enhancing substances
(e.g., anabolic steroids, EPO), analysis must be performed
at highly specialized laboratories.
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