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Board approves adding oral‑fluid (saliva) testing to random drug‑testing options for probationers and intervention participants
Summary
The Board of Registered Nursing voted to allow oral‑fluid (saliva) drug testing as an acceptable method for random testing of probationers and participants in the intervention program, directing staff to add the service to the vendor contract. The board emphasized oral fluid as a complementary test rather than a replacement for urine testing.
The Board of Registered Nursing voted May 29 to allow oral‑fluid (saliva) testing as an acceptable method for random drug testing of probationers and participants in the state intervention program and to add the service to the board’s vendor contract.
The motion, made during the Enforcement, Investigations and Intervention Committee and carried unanimously, directs staff to amend the board’s existing vendor agreement to add oral‑fluid testing and to work with the vendor on how oral‑fluid collections would be scheduled and used in the random testing program.
Clinical and vendor presenters told the committee oral‑fluid testing has a much shorter detection window than urine and typically detects parent drug compounds rather than urine metabolites. Dr. James Ferguson, medical review…
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