{"id":51491,"date":"2019-08-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/?p=51491"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:38:19","slug":"hair-follicle-testing-etg-hair-tests-for-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/blogs\/hair-follicle-testing-etg-hair-tests-for-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair Follicle Testing &#038; ETG Hair Tests For Alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many workplaces, either as an internal policy or as compliance to work for a larger Federal entity, such as the Department of Transportation, now have drug testing. This drug testing may be one of the conditions for hiring if a job offer is made, or it may be part of the periodic screening process all employees undertake on the job, to ensure safety for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most popular types of drug tests now is <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yaVIIloUZKU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the hair drug test or hair follicle drug test<\/a>. <strong>There are plenty of reasons for this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ease Of Collection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Workplaces and the justice system, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/court-ordered-drug-testing\/\"><strong>court-ordered drug tests<\/strong><\/a>, or drug tests as part of a probationary program, are all, increasingly, preferring to go with hair drug tests as the means of testing. It\u2019s easy to see why, with one of the big benefits being how easy it is to get a sample. Just 1.5\u201d of hair, the minimum is required, though it\u2019s possible\u2014and sometimes even preferable\u2014to conduct a test with longer samples of 3\u201d or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike urine tests, there is no extensive collection technique required or an issue of privacy as the sample is collected. The tester can directly observe\u2014and even collect\u2014the samples required to reduce the chance of cheating or contamination. While some have tried to cheat urine tests by submitting a sample of urine from elsewhere, hair is easy to collect on the spot, and it doesn\u2019t have to be head hair; any hair on the body, from the chest to armpit, will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ETG Hair Tests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another reason that <strong>hair testing<\/strong> is popular is that unlike urine testing, an <strong>ETG hair test<\/strong> can effectively test for the consumption of alcohol for weeks into the past. Urine tests are generally only good at detecting alcohol consumption within 72-90 hours of consumption. Anything beyond that and the test will come up negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, with <strong>ETG hair tests<\/strong>, the period that alcohol metabolites remain present in the hair can be up to 90 days. This makes especially useful for individual testing, where people may be required to stay sober due to probationary requirements, or other programs to stay clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This longer \u201clook back period,\u201d combined with many types of drugs that hair can test for, makes it easy to see why hair drug testing is growing in popularity. It\u2019s just easier for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many workplaces, either as an internal policy or as compliance to work for a larger Federal entity, such as the Department of Transportation, now have drug testing. This drug testing may be one of the conditions for hiring if a job offer is made, or it may be part of the periodic screening process all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"51158,51535,51395,51391,50935,51390","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,49],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}