Brief Overview of Hair Follicle Drug Tests
Have you heard about the accuracy and reliability of hair follicle drug tests? Do you know how long the drug intake is detectible via drug tests that use hair follicles as the sample? This article presents you a detailed overview of how they work.
Hair follicle drug test is a remarkable method via which one can easily detect the history of drug intake that has occurred within the past three months. This method is very reliable and it is really very tough to pass the drug test if you had used any drug within a period of 3 months before the date when the sample is taken.
The Process Involved
This drug test is simple and very accurate. A strand of hair taken from the person who is to be tested would suffice. Employers who intend to test their employees and parents who intend to know whether their adolescent daughters/sons have become addicted to drugs can go ahead with this type of test.
Just go ahead and collect a single strand of hair follicle from the person who needs to be tested for the usage of the drug. Seal it in an envelope and send it to the laboratory for the hair follicle drug test. The test results can be obtained with ease and the results have been proven to be very accurate when compared to other types of drug tests. Drug intake that has happened within the past 3 months can easily be detected with hair follicle drug tests. Very small amounts of chemicals present in the drug get trapped within the hair strands for a long time and hence the hair drug tests have been proven to be highly authentic.
Once the test is done, the laboratory personnel call you over the phone to inform you about the results. Often the laboratory personnel also have the habit of giving you an account number in exchange of the sample that you have given for the test to be done. In such cases, you can call up, enter the account number and get the results right away with ease.
Hair follicle drug tests can detect the presence of majority of the drugs. The drugs that can easily be detected would include opiates, marijuana, methamphetamines, ecstasy and cocaine. Even other illegal chemicals that are consumed get stored in the cortex of the hair for a period of around 90 days and hence these drug tests prove to be unquestionable.
Advantages of Hair Follicle Drug Tests
- These drug tests are very authentic
- Sample collection can be done with ease
- The testing is fast and simple
- Drug intake within the past 3 months time frame can easily be detected
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hI, if I have shaved my hair since taking drugs and it is now a couple of milimetres in lengh will drugs show up in my hair or do the folicles secrete the drugs quickley, or over a period of time? any help you can give me is greatly appreciated,
Kind regards,
Lee.
40+mg of hair is necessary for hair follicle test. This is approximately equal to 60 strands of hair that are of length equal to 3.5-4 cm. If enough hair cannot be obtained form head, hair that is collected from different parts (exclusive of pubic areas) of our body can be taken as samples.
On an average it would take 5-10 days from the intake of drug for the affected hair to grow out of the scalp.
Greetings and Salutations:
I’m a substance abuse counselor with a patient who tested positive for methamphetamine per urinalysis while testing negative per hair follicle. Her caseworker observed that she changes her hair color quite frequently. Could hair dye cause a false negative?
Thanks in advance,
David
ok, does the hair test show a time stamp on how long it has been since usage. or how frequent of use?
dustin, No hair drug tests revel the timestamp and frequency of usage. But the level of toxins present/detected in the test will be more in case of frequent drug users. It will be high even if the drug was consumed in the recent past.
Hi, if someone took a line of cocaine once for the first time ever in their lives about 2 months prior to a hair test, would this show on the results?
David MacLean, Can you repeat both the tests and let the tests be conducted at a different test laboratory.
Generally hair dyes cannot be the cause of the false negative. Please let me know once you retest both urine and hair follicle samples.
Meursault, If its the case of hair testing, I would suggest you to use a detox kit then perform a detoxification and then use the test equipment to know the results before you appear for the test.
As you know, hair drug tests can detect the drug usage for the past 3 90 days and hence its likely that the person can test positive.
OK, enoungh of the vauge responce. Just one flipping question, and I hope that someone in cyberspace can answer it! i smoke one puff of pot per day. I will stop two weeks before a test, and I’ll color my hair a day before the test. What are the chances of having it detected? Can someone give me a straight and simple answer…..soon? Thank you.
JT
btw, my email is classicdad@cox.net
Jeff, there is a really good chance you will fail so I would recommend going to a local headshop in your area to purchase some detox shampoo and gel to pass a hair follicle test. I just went today and it was only 40 bucks for the shampoo. It has been about a month and a half since I have smoked weed, but I want to ensure that I get this job because it’s a really good one with a good future. I would encourage anyone else reading this to do the same. Once you pass the test you can start using again. I passed a urine test by purchasing synthetic urine for my last job. There is a reason why people do drugs. Society needs to be restructered instead of penalizing drugs users who usually perform better than most at their jobs. I smoke weed to dumb myself down to the level of the rest of society. That and it relieves the daily stress that I recieve from having to deal with the rest of America.
Jeff, The chances of getting the drug detected via the hair follicle test is maximum in your case. To be straightforward, I am sure that just coloring your hair wont reduce the chances of the drug getting detected. And since you stop the intake just 2 weeks before the hair test, its likely that the drug will easily get detected in the hair test that you are going to undergo.