{"id":50334,"date":"2020-07-05T22:03:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T22:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/?post_type=faqs&#038;p=50334"},"modified":"2020-07-05T22:05:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T22:05:25","slug":"which-is-better-for-drug-testing-blood-or-urine","status":"publish","type":"faqs","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/faqs\/employer-drug-testing\/which-is-better-for-drug-testing-blood-or-urine\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is better for drug testing, blood or urine?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blood is not necessarily better then urine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urine is the standard for workplace testing in the United States.&nbsp; Blood testing is invasive and the testing is expense ($150 +) and takes 4 \u2013 5 days.&nbsp; Mistakes happen because they don\u2019t do very many.&nbsp; Detection in blood goes back about 1 day.&nbsp; Labs typically don\u2019t have expanded panels for blood, just 5 or 10 panel; anything else would be specialty testing and very &#8211; very expensive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blood analysis may be appropriate in situations when it is suspected that a person is actively under the influence of a drug or alcohol. Since drugs are rapidly metabolized and eliminated from the body, blood analysis offers a very brief detection window. Drugs in blood are typically detectable within minutes to hours, depending on the drug and the dose, versus one to several days in urine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would actually recommend lab based oral fluid before blood for not-DOT post accident or reasonable suspicion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/50334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faqs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/50334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}