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Saliva Drug Testing vs Urine Drug Testing

For many employers today, knowing their employees and applicants are drug-free is a necessity. As a part of your applicants' background check process, you can also choose to have an oral saliva drug test or a urine drug test performed.

For comparison purposes, here are the clinical results of oral saliva drug tests as compared to urine drug tests. Whatever your own firm's drug testing needs mandate, EBI has an appropriate solution.

	Oral Fluid	Urine Non-DOT
Positive	5.21%	4.66%
Negative	94.79%	95.34%*
Total Tested	119,000	1,520,000
Oral Fluid vs. Urine Drug Testing Statistics Drug-to-Drug

Amphetamine	0.37%	0.37%
Cocaine	1.16%	0.77%
Marijuana	3.35%	3.01%
Opiates	0.30%	0.24%
Phencyclidine	0.03%	0.025%
Jan.-Dec. 2001 and based on the same 5 drugs of abuse. All testing performed at LabOne. *Drugs that aren't currently testing in oral fluid are included in the urine totals but not listed.

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