Why Saliva Testing

Why Saliva Testing

Why choose saliva testing over traditional urine drug testing? The answers are numerous. Perhaps the most important reason is, when done correctly, you can't cheat a saliva test.

People have spent decades developing simple and effective ways to cheat, beat, and falsify urine drug tests. Often people take advantage of the opportunity for privacy when providing a urine sample. For a urine drug test to be correctly administered, the person collecting the urine sample must watch the urine leave the patient's body. This is dehumanizing and uncomfortable for both the patient and the person collecting the sample.

Saliva drug tests are easily administered under supervised observation. In minutes, a saliva sample can be collected nearly anywhere. There are no privacy or gender specific issues involved in saliva drug testing.

In addition to easier collection and being impossible to cheat, other advantages of saliva testing over urine testing are:

• Superior accuracy
• Reveals the individual level of each drug
• Faster turnaround time
• Earlier drug detection window
• Strong correlation to impairment