Tuesday, August 17, 2010

How Many Types of Drugs can be Detected Using Saliva Drug Tests

For finding the drug usage and addiction, different types of drug tests are used. The different types of drug testing methods are Saliva, Urine, Blood, Sweat and Hair drug testing.

Various factors are to be considered while conducting or selecting the type of test. Some of the factors are type of the drug, detection time period, quantity of the drug usage, convenience in conducting the test, number of people etc., All these factors are considered when selecting the right type of the drug tests.

Some of the tests do not need any privacy for conducting the test, some of the tests have high costs. So, one can select the saliva drug testing as the best choice as there are many advantages like no adulteration of the results, quick output and detection of 8 different drugs.

The detection can be done immediately for drugs. The different types of drugs which can be detected are cocaine, Opiates, Methamphetamine, Benzodiazepines, Amphetamines, Phencyclidine(PCP), Marijuana and hashish, alcohol. The presence of drug can be detected using this saliva drug test.

The detection period for the drugs varies depending on the type of the drug. The detection period for the Marijuana will be around 12 to 24 hours and the detection period for the cocaine- 1day, Opiates- 2 to 3 days, Methamphetamine is 5 to 13 days, Amphetamines is up to 3 days, for PCP it is 3 days, Benzodiazepines 2 to 3 days etc and alcohol is 6 to 12 hrs.

These detection times are very less when compared to other types of drug testing. Besides the advantages, the main drawback is that this test is only useful for getting the immediate results after consumption.

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