As the use of opioid drugs for pain treatment in workers’ compensation cases has increased, so has the use of urine drug testing to monitor potential drug abuse.
In California, the number of injured workers being tested, the number of times they are tested and the number of screenings per test have all increased, according to a study released by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute late Monday. CWCI analyzed 2.8 million lab records for urine drug tests performed on injured California workers from 2002 to 2014.
Urine drug tests account for a growing percentage of lab tes...
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