Things to Avoid at a Drug Test

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At PATRIOT Backgrounds and Investigations, serving Davie, FL, and the nearby region, people reach out to our Davie private investigators in search of a Florida drug screening for employees. While some prospective employees have no problem with a screen screening, others are quite apprehensive. Ideally, you want to avoid illegal substances at all costs to optimize your health and ensure you never have to worry about a drug screening. However, certain techniques that you may have heard work actually aren’t in the slightest bit effective at helping detox your body. 

 

Use Dog Urine    

The lab can easily differentiate between human and animal urine. You’re not doing yourself any favors by strapping a bottle of dog or cat urine to your leg in an effort to keep it warm and then pouring it in the specimen cup. When the lab technician has the sample, they can chemically test the urine to see which animal it comes from based on its composition of it. If anyone says they’ve passed a drug test this way, they’re completely lying to you. You will look stupid in the end as you’re trying to pass animal urine as your own. 

Use Someone Else’s Urine 

You may think it’s a fool-proof plan to take someone else’s urine into a drug test. Don’t forget, though, we’ve been down this road a time or two. Tests are monitored carefully. And when you bring someone else’s urine into the place, it’s not the same temperature as it would be if it were genuinely from you. 

Technicians watch for these little indifferences because people have been trying for years to outsmart drug tests, but the one fact remains – the technicians are on to the tricks. Men have tried to pass off female urine as their own, while females have tried to pass off make urine as their own. This doesn’t work. During the testing process, a technician can check the sample for testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone metabolites, which are gender-specific metabolites. We’ve even had males try to pass pregnant women’s urine as their own. 

Use Too Close to the Test 

People think there are magically cut-off days. They have read that opiates are gone in your system within two to four days, so they believe they can continue to use up until four days before the test. There’s a huge flaw in their plan. How quickly your metabolism processes the pills or drugs, in general, depends on your body mass, how much was taken, your age, what dosage, and other similar factors. Therefore, just because you think you’re safe due to the average time that a substance remains in your system, doesn’t mean it will be. 

Rely on Expensive Detox Drinks

The secret to passing a drug test isn’t in a drink. Those drinks are made to clear toxins from your system, boost your metabolism, and possibly increase your energy. They aren’t intended to remove metabolites from your urine. They will speed up your metabolism in an effort to get rid of the toxins, but how they really work, is by encouraging you to urinate more to flush out metabolites from your system. They have a blend of nutrients that can replace that you flushed out. However, they don’t remove the toxins from your system permanently, and your system will become unbalanced within hours of drinking that detox drink.

Drink an Abundance of Water

People often suggest drinking an abundance of water before your test. It’s supposed to either flush out the toxins or cover them up, depending on who you ask. However, what people aren’t telling you is that you can’t super-speed the detoxification process. You may be able to speed it up slightly through water and exercise, but it takes more than a day of drinking water constantly.

Moreover, if you come into our test with highly diluted urine, it sends up a red flag that you were trying to glitch the test. We’re on to it and won’t pass you in this case. 

At PATRIOT Backgrounds and Investigations, our Davie private investigators recommend people avoid illegal drugs for their health as well as how it can affect a variety of aspects of their lives, including getting a job. If you’re going to fail a drug, you should know which methods will absolutely not help you pass, as noted by a PATRIOT PI. 

Contact PATRIOT Backgrounds and Investigations, serving Davie, FL, and the nearby region, if you need to take a drug test for work or are an employer looking to drug test the staff. Call us at 954-372-1103, or use our online form

 

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