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Alere Toxicology-DATIA 800.340.4029 / www.aleretoxicology.com


IFC 41 4 17 45


Clinical Reference Laboratory 800.445.6917 / www.crlcorp.com


FormFox, Inc. 877.FRM.FOX.1 / www.formfox.com


GO2 Lab Media 877.822.4333 / www.go2labmedia.com


Immunalysis 909.482.0840 / www.immunalysis.com


Intoximeters, Inc 314.429.4000 / workplacealcoholtesting.com


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McGriff Life and Health Insurance 800.356.9804 / www.mcgriffinsurance.com


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


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


BC Quest Diagnostics 800.877.7484 / EmployerSolutions.com


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8 The Dangers of Being Uninformed— Your Best Teacher Is Someone Else’s Mistake By William J. Judge, JD, LL.M., Drug Screening Compliance Institute


features


20 Best Practices for Marijuana: What TPAs Need to Advise


Clients about Continued Testing By Nina French, Current Consulting Group


24 Designated Employer Representative (DER)—


Are You on Top of Everything? By Karen Lehman, Bombardier Aerospace/Learjet


30 Detection of Synthetic Urine Using Synthetic Urine Dipstick and Synthetic-Urine Liquid


Reagent for Autoanalyzers By Jack V. Smith, Mack Bonner, M.D., Gregory A. Hobbs, Ph.D., Hazel O’Connor, Ph.D., Christopher M. Stanton, José A. Orench, and Rhapsody J. Swoboda


34 DATIA 2018 Conference Recap By Tamika Carter, PHR, SHRM-CP


38 The Hemp Cultivation Quagmire


in the U.S. By Judge Mary Celeste (ret.)


departments


6 Letter from the Editor 15 Getting to Know 16 New Member Profile 18 Best Practices


42 Business Sense 44 Trends in Drug Use 46 Washington Report


48 State Drug Testing Law 101


50 New Member Listing summer 2018•Vol. 11 Issue 3


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