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DATIA LEADERSHIP Phil Dubois, Chairman DrugScan, Inc.


Sherri Vogler, Chairman-Elect Houston Medical Testing Services


Andrew Powell, Treasurer Nursing Corps, Inc.


Scott Taillie, Secretary Alere Toxicology


Neil Fortner, Past Chairman Avee Laboratories


Jim Bentley Consultant


Lynn Carr RecoveryTrek


Sammie Dabbs AWSI


Daniel DiThomas i3screen


Brian Drew Nationwide Medical Review


Kirk Hardy The International Drug Detection Agency Ltd.


Shannon Lalley FTS International


Robert McCormick Quest Diagnostics


Jo McGuire Five Minutes of Courage


Joe Reilly Joe Reilly & Associates, Inc.


Lisa Ruehle Workplace Drug Testing Consultant


Renee Schofield TSS, Inc.


Jacquie Sheehey Smart Start, Inc.


Elaine Taule NMS Management Services, Inc.


ADVERTISING To advertise in focus, call 202.337.1893.


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contents fall 2015 • Vol. 8 Issue 4 cover


8 Meet the Chaperones By Gary F. Patrone, Arcpoint Labs of Phoenix


features


16 Streamline Your Business: Planning For 2016 By Connie Whitesell, Scattered to Streamlined Business Coaching


26 Myth Busters: Shedding Light on Common Misconceptions that Could Impact Your Choice


of Drug Testing Options By Duffy Nabors, Psychemedics Corporation


departments


4 Letter from the Chairman


6 Letter from the Executive Director


12 New Member Profiles 14 Best Practices 24 Business Sense


32 Washington Report 34 Getting to Know 36 Spotlight On


42 Focus on Alcohol Testing


46 Ask Alice 48 DATIA in Motion


index of advertisers 53


30, 31 Alere Toxicology 800.881.0722 / escreen.com/eccf


BB&T Insurance Services, Inc. 800.356.9804 / Insurance.BBT.com


25 13 IFC 47 7 22 29


Bluing Products, Inc. 620.960.0358 / www.bluingproducts.com


Chematics, Inc 800.348.5174 / www.chematics.com


Clinical Reference Laboratory 800.452.5677 / www.crlcorp.com


Compliance Information Systems 800.647.9070 / www.complianceinfosystems.com


EMSI—Workplace Services 800.522.3674 / emsinet.com


Encompass Compliance Corp 866.328.7487 / www.EncompInc.com


GO2 Lab Media 877.822.4333 / www.go2labmedia.com


33 19


50 Marijuana Law Updates


52 Name that Drug


54 State Drug Testing Law 101


56 International Drug Testing


58 New Member Listing 35 15


Intoximeters, Inc 314.429.4000 / workplacealcoholtesting.com


MTA Metro-North Railroad


https://erecruit.mtabsc.info/psc/ERPRD/EMPLOYEE/ HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_ CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=84275&Si teId=1&PostingSeq=1


OraSure Technologies, Inc. 800.869.3538 / www.chooseintercept.com


PAS Systems, International 800.660.SNIF / www.pasintl.com


41, BC Quest Diagnostics 800.877.7484 / EmployerSolutions.com


IBC 5 Randox


+44 (0) 28 9442 2413 / www.randox.com SCITECK


800.749.4537 / www.sciteck.org


38 Important Highlights from SAMHSA’s Proposed Guidelines


for Lab-based Oral Fluid Testing By Bill Current, Current Consulting Group


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