If an 8-panel urine drug screen has to register 20 or above what exactly are they checking for?

Answer 1

URINE DRUG SCREENWHENEVER A URINE SAMPLE is checked for drugs, they look for everything, legal and illegal drugs: narcotic pain medication, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, codiene, barbiturates, benzodiazapines (valium, Ativan etc...), stimulants (methamphetamines, Ritalin etc...), hallucinogens (LSD). If you have a valid need for a prescription drug and it is prescribed by a physicican, you don't have anything to worry about. There may be some class of drug that I missed, but you get the idea. <<>> P.S. A 6 panel drug test looks for: amphetamines, methamphetamines (stimulants), marijuana, PCP, cocaine, opiates (narcotic pain killers, heroin etc...) AnswerAn eight-panel drug screen looks for cocaine, marijuana, opiates, amphetamines, meth, PCP, benzodiazepines and barbiturates. This is more than many other tests--the five-drug test used by DOT doesn't look for meth, benzos and barbiturates, for instance. The LabCorp seven-drug panel doesn't look for meth. Now, the king of all drug tests is the LabCorp Comprehensive Drug Profile with Volatiles...which looks for about 250 drugs including stuff like Benadryl, acetone, caffeine and Tagamet. You run this test if you've got a drug overdose patient and you don't know what they took, not because you're trying to catch a drug abuser.

To the first answerer: no, they do NOT test for everything, only for drugs they have reason to suspect you of taking. For instance, take LSD. (Well, don't actually take any; just follow along.) The Department of Defense got its labs certified to test for acid a few years back and they figured they'd catch lots of troops doing acid because before this certification happened the Army couldn't test for acid and everyone knew it. After three million samples they stopped doing routine LSD tests because they only got four positive tests. The standard test the military runs is pot, opiates, PCP, cocaine, amphetamines and meth plus three drugs randomly chosen from a menu of 24 common drugs of abuse.