Saliva-drug-test is a test which is used to detect the presence or absence of the drug in recent days in the body. This test became more popular than other drug tests because it is easy to proceed and it is cheap and difficult to adulterate the results of the test.
One can get results quickly by saliva-drug-test and it is most efficient one. There are kits to detect the drug use by using saliva. One can conduct saliva-drug-test at home by using such kits. But, such kits should be qualitative and one should purchase them from a reputable manufacturer. Before appointing the candidates in an organization, they are to be tested to know if there is any case of drug abuse. Generally, saliva-drug-test is conducted for pre-employment, random, post accident, reasonable suspicion. Usually, the results of saliva-drug-test is closely related to the results of the blood analysis. Because of this reason, saliva-drug-test test became more popular and it became perfect method to detect the drug use, in most of the cases it is used for post accidents.
Saliva-drug screen detection period: Detection period means the amount of time required to detect the drug use by using different drug tests. Detection time of the drug test depends upon the type of drug and quantity of drug consumed. There are different detection times for different types of drugs in saliva-drug test, such as:
- The detection period of Marijuana is 1 hour to 14 hours after consumption, in saliva drug test.
- 48 hours to 72 hours is the detection period of cocaine after taking cocaine, in saliva-drug test.
- If it is opiates, then detection period is between 48 to 72 hours from the time of consumption.
- 48 to 72 hours is the detection time of Methamphetamine and Ecstasy from the time of consumption.
- Detection time of BZD is from 48 to 72 hours after having in saliva-drug test.
The above information is regarding detection time of the different types of drugs after consumption, in saliva-drug test.