DATIA LEADERSHIP Sherri Vogler, Chairman Houston Medical Testing Services
Jo McGuire, Chair-Elect Five Minutes of Courage
Scott Taillie, Treasurer Alere Toxicology
Lisa Ruehle, Secretary Workplace Drug Testing Consultant
Phil Dubois, Past Chairman DrugScan, Inc.
Aaron Atkinson Quest Diagnostics
Jim Bentley GeneAlign, LLC
Shannon Bentley Bentley Consulting
Lynn Carr DSI Medical Services
Sammie Dabbs AWSI
Daniel DiThomas i3screen
Brian Drew Nationwide Medical Review
Neil Fortner Avee Laboratories
James Greer Accredited Drug Testing, Inc.
Kirk Hardy The Drug Detection Agency—International
Jan Kornmann KorManagement Services, LLC
Andrew Powell Nursing Corps, Inc.
Joe Reilly Joe Reilly & Associates, Inc.
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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departments
4 Letter from the Chairman
6 Letter from the Executive Director
14 New Member Profiles 24 Business Sense 34 Trends in Drug Use 36 Washington Report 38 Getting to Know
40 Spotlight On 47 DATIA 2016
Conference Sponsors
48 Focus on Alcohol Testing
50 Ask Alice
51 State Drug Testing Laws
52 DATIA in Motion
54 Marijuana Law Updates
56 Name that Drug
58 State Drug Testing Law 101
60 International Drug Testing
62 Industry Announcements 62 New Member Listing
index of advertisers 5
Alere Toxicology 800.340.4029 /
www.aleretoxicology.com
49 IFC 7 59 13 63 55
BB&T Insurance Services, Inc. 800.356.9804 /
Insurance.BBT.com
Clinical Reference Laboratory 800.452.5677 /
www.crlcorp.com
Compliance Information Systems 800.647.9070 /
www.complianceinfosystems.com
GO2 Lab Media 877.822.4333 /
www.go2labmedia.com
Immunalysis Corporation 909.482.0840 /
immunalysis.com
Intoximeters, Inc. 314.429.4000 /
www.intox.com
Mercedes Medical 800.331.2716 /
Confirmationlabsetup.com
cover
8 What Are Your Collectors REALLY Doing? Results from
Clandestine Audits By Barbara Martin, Advanced Disposal
features
16 Advanced Sales Techniques for Employee Screening Services By Joe Plaia, Current Consulting Group
26 Union Issues—The Latest from the NLRB and How the Ruling
Could Impact Your Workplace By William J. Judge, Encompass Compliance Corp.
32 2016 DATIA Conference Highlights
42 2016 State of the Industry By Joe Reilly, Joe Reilly & Associates
contents summer 2016 • Vol. 9 Issue 3
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OraSure Technologies, Inc. 800.869.3538 /
www.chooseintercept.com
PAS Systems, International
800.660.SNIF /
www.pasintl.com
Professional Toxicology Services, Inc 913.599.3535 /
www.protoxservices.com
Quest Diagnostics
BC 800.877.7484 /
EmployerSolutions.com 15
Randox 41 51 21
+44 (0) 28 9442 2413 /
randox.com SCITECK
800.749.4537 /
www.sciteck.org
State Drug Testing Laws 954.255.8650 /
StateDrugTestingLaws.com
USDTL 800.237.2367 /
usdtl.com
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