| Hair drug testing has been around longer than hair | | | | inadequate testing of these individuals. Using hair |
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| longer after they have been consumed verses | | | | drug testing technology, employees can be |
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| The reason it is so difficult to accurately screen | | | | the progress of drug and alcohol abusers while in |
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| testing is because the rate that alcohol leaves the | | | | has been in treatment can show the progress of |
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| extremely difficult to judge how much a person | | | | who have fallen off the wagon and may need |
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| amount of FAEE and EtG markers that are | | | | |
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