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.
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departments
4 Letter from the Chairman
6 Letter from the Executive Director
14 New Member Profiles 16 Best Practices 24 Business Sense
30 Trends in Drug Use 34 Washington Report 38 Getting to Know
50 Focus on Alcohol Testing
52 Marijuana Law Updates
index of advertisers 63
Accredited Drug Testing 800.221.4291 /
www.americandrugtesting.com
5 45 29 IFC 11 13 31 51
Alere Toxicology—DATIA 800.340.4029 /
www.aleretoxicology.com
American Thermal Instruments 800.648.6339 /
www.americanthermal.com
BB&T Insurance Services, Inc. 800.356.9804 /
Insurance.BBT.com
Clinical Reference Laboratory 800.445.6917 /
www.crlcorp.com
Drug and Alcohol Testing Compliance Services 903.234.1136 /
http://datcs.com/
EMSI—Workplace Services 800.522.3674 /
www.emsinet.com/EMSI-Health/ Employer-Services
FormFox, Inc.
877.FRM-FOX-1 /
formfox.com
GO2 Lab Media 877.822.4333 /
www.go2labmedia.com
54 Name that Drug
56 State Drug Testing Law 101
58 Marketing Buzz 62 Industry
Announcements 62 New Member Listing cover
8 Electronic Chain of Custody Delivers Faster, Better Drug Testing By David Kuntz, Clinical Reference Laboratory
features
20 If It’s Legal, Why Test? By Jo McGuire, Five Minutes of Courage & Chuck Marting, Colorado Mobile Drug Testing, Inc.
26 The Use of Hair Testing in the
Transportation Industry By Jim Dyke, Pschemedics Corporation
36 Emerging as an
Industry Leader By George Gilpatrick, Cahill Swift
40 The Cost of Non-Compliance By Bill Judge, Encompass Compliance Corp.
48 DATIA 2017 Annual Conference
contents spring 2017•Vol. 10 Issue 2
47 19 35 12
Immunalysis Corporation 909.482.0840 /
www.immunalysis.com
Intoximeters, Inc. 314.429.4000 /
workplacealcoholtesting.com
OraSure Technologies, Inc. 800.869.3538 /
www.chooseintercept.com
PAS Systems, International
800.660.SNIF /
www.pasintl.com
18, BC Quest Diagnostics 800.877.7484 /
EmployerSolutions.com
7 15 32 39 Randox
+44 (0) 28 9442 2413 /
www.randoxtoxicology.com SCITECK
828.650.0409 /
www.sciteck.org
SMARTOX 888.711.9906 /
www.smartox.com
United States Drug Testing Laboratories, Inc. 800.237.2367 /
www.usdtl.com
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