contents fall 2017•Vol. 10 Issue 4 cover
8 A Failed Drug Test: Crises or Opportunity? A Perspective from a Substance Abuse Professional By Nicholas Barry
features
18 From Mobile Collector to Full-Service TPA: Starting a
Drug Testing Business 2.0 By Joe Reilly, National Drug Screening, Inc.
22 Online Custody and Control Form Systems and the
International Market By Kyle A. Hicks, Omega Laboratories
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departments
4 Letter from the Chairman
6 Letter from the Executive Director
12 New Member Profile 14 Best Practices 26 Business Sense
28 Trends in Drug Use 30 Getting to Know
32 Focus on Alcohol Testing
34 Marijuana Law Updates
36 Name that Drug
index of advertisers 7
Alere Toxicology—DATIA 800.340.4029 /
www.aleretoxicology.com
15 IFC 13 43 37 5
BB&T Insurance Services, Inc. 800.356.9804 /
Insurance.BBT.com
Clinical Reference Laboratory 800.445.6917 /
www.crlcorp.com
EMSI 214.689.3600 /
www.emsinet.com
FormFox, Inc.
877.FRM-FOX-1 /
formfox.com
GO2 Lab Media 877.822.4333 /
www.go2labmedia.com
Intoximeters, Inc 314.429.4000 /
workplacealcoholtesting.com
47 49 38 Washington Report
40 State Drug Testing Law 101
44 International Drug Testing
48 Marketing Buzz 50 New Member Listing
41 29
OraSure Technologies, Inc. 800.869.3538 /
www.chooseintercept.com
PAS Systems, International
800.660.SNIF /
www.pasintl.com
35, BC Quest Diagnostics 800.877.7484 /
EmployerSolutions.com
31 Randox
+44 (0) 28 9442 2413 /
www.randoxtoxicology.com SCITECK
828.650.0409 /
www.sciteck.org
Thermo Fisher Scientific 800.766.7000 /
www.thermofisher.com
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