Advantages of Multi-Panel Drug Test

Drug testing at homes, workplaces, schools, and sports is important as it helps to identify drug addiction among teenagers, employees, students, and athletes respectively. Performing drug testing using multi-panel urine drug test is easy, convenient, and provides quick results. Multi-panel urine drug test can identify presence of metabolites in single specimen at once. About Multi-Panel Urine Drug Test Multi-panel urine drug testing can detect a number of drugs present in a urine sample in any combination. The multi-panel urine drug test is easy to conduct and can be performed without using any additional instrument. The results are easy to read, accurate and displayed within a period of 5 minutes. The multi-panel urine drug test adheres to SAMHSA cut-off levels of drug concentration. The multi-panel urine drug test can detect commonly abused drugs like Cocaine, Amphetamine, Methamphetamine, Marijuana (THC), Opiates, Phencyclidine, Barbiturate, Benzodiazepine, Methadone, and Ecstasy drug metabolites in urine. Process of Drug Testing Before starting the testing procedure, the urine specimen and the pouch containing the test card should be brought to the room temperature. Later the test card should be removed from pouch for testing. The test card should be hold vertically with arrows and test strips pointing downwards. The test strips should be immersed in the urine specimen for 10-15 seconds. Care needs to be taken that strips should be dipped till the maximum line only. Later, the test card should be placed on a non-absorbent flat surface. The result can be read after lines appear in the result area. The result needs to be interpreted in 5 minutes and should not be considered after 10 minutes. If the lines do not appear, repeat the same test process with another test card. Various adulterants in urine sample can produce erroneous results. If any adulteration of sample is noticed then the sample should be discarded and tests should be performed with fresh sample. Advantages of Multi-Panel Urine Drug Test The multi-panel urine drug test can test for presence of number of drugs in a single sample of urine at first attempt itself. The presence of 10-12 drugs can be known in a single attempt rather than separately testing for each drug thereby saving a lot of time. A multi-panel urine drug test is beneficial when multiple drugs presence has to be known quickly. Multi-panel urine drug test is very effective when randomly tested. With random testing there are very less chances for a person to clear if he abused to more than one drug, as wide range of drugs are tested. The multi-panel urine drug test can also be used for on-site testing as it gives quick results. Thus, multi-panel urine drug test increases the efficiency of the drug test, which can find multiple drugs presence at single time. However, multi-panel urine drug tests only provide preliminary analytical results. More advanced methods like Gas Chromatography\Mass Spectrometry (GC\MS) can be used for confirmatory purposes.