New research validates a study that almost 300,000 truck drivers would fail a hair test for drug use today, according to The Alliance for Driver Safety and Security, which did the original study and ...

A federal agency is seeking to add hair testing to the government’s arsenal of workplace drug screening tools, despite evidence that the process is unreliable and may lead to racial bias. The proposed ...

The word “mandatory” has been batted around in headlines and social media posts the last few weeks describing long-in-the-works reforms to driver drug testing protocol. But what, exactly, will be ...

A hair strand drug test screens for illicit drug use and the misuse of prescription medication. Though commonly called a “hair follicle test,” this drug test only tests clipped strands of hair, not ...

A rule recently proposed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) revives the previously rejected idea of using hair tests in drug screening of federal employees and ...

The chairman of a federal drug-testing advisory board that developed the controversial proposed mandatory guidelines for hair drug testing of truck drivers, other workers in safety-sensitive jobs and ...

Revised guidelines for drug-testing hair scheduled for publishing next year. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has again pushed back its ...

The Department of Health and Human Services could by early next year add fentanyl and methadone to its list of drugs that federal and safety-sensitive workers must be tested for, a top drug official ...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), proposed scientific and technical guidelines for hair drug testing in ...

The Texas Racing Commission has suspended hair testing of racehorses in the state, the regulator announced Jan. 14. Amy Cook, executive director of the TRC, wrote in an email to BloodHorse that the ...

You thought that wild weekend from months ago was ancient history? Think again. While blood tests only catch drug use from the past few days and urine tests stretch to maybe a few weeks, there’s a ...