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COVID Border Closures Thwart Drug raffickers.

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COVID Border Closures Thwart Drug Traffickers. As in other businesses, drug traffickers have had to adapt their games to survive when COVID-19 impacted their normal means of supplying America's substance abusers. Unlike other businesses, they have been completely free of governance, able to make their own rules, and turn on a dime as conditions change. ... Read more

Safety Has No Secrets: Psychemedics Overview

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Prologue to "In Safety There Are No Secrets":  How hair testing works. In this 10-minute video, Psychemedics Executive Vice President Charlie Doucot explains the Science behind hair testing used by our three "Safety Has No Secrets" panelists. In this video, you'll learn how it works, why it is the most simple and sanitary drug test ... Read more

Rebuilding A Workplace After COVID-19 (Part Three of Three)

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Playing Defense. Things To Know About Detection & Deterrence. (Part Three of a Three-Part Series: “Rebuilding A Workplace After COVID-19”) “The best defense  is a good offense.” Conventional wisdom, locker room motivation, business tactic Offense is proactive. Defense is reactive. Founding Father George Washington, early 1900’s heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey and legendary Green Bay ... Read more

Rebuilding A Workplace After COVID-19 (Part Two of Three)

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A Shifting Threat and Why 70% is a Number To Remember (Part Two of a Three-Part Series: “Rebuilding A Workplace After COVID-19”) “… other types of disasters — have led people to increase their substance abuse.” -Dr. Adam Leventhal | University of Southern California | Health, Emotion and Addiction Laboratory A Quick Recap. In part ... Read more

Rebuilding A Workplace After COVID-19 (Part One of Three)

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Stress, Self-Medication, and What History Teaches Us (Part One of a Three-Part Series: “Rebuilding A Workplace After COVID-19”) “The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.” - Theodore Roosevelt Looking backward to move forward. History truly is the best teacher for those wise enough to mine it for ... Read more

Psychemedics Announces a “Vaping Panel” to Detect and Deter the use of Marijuana, CBD and Nicotine

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A New and Cost-Effective Tool to Combat the E-cigarette Epidemic Among Youth ACTON, MA, May 5, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Psychemedics Corporation (NASDAQ: PMD), the world leader and pioneer in detecting drugs of abuse using hair analysis, today introduced a Vaping Panel to detect the use of Marijuana, CBD and Nicotine. This test provides a … Read more

Psychemedics Test for Cotinine (metabolite of Nicotine) Detection Cleared by FDA

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A New and Cost-Effective Tool to Detect and Deter Nicotine use ACTON, MA, April 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Psychemedics Corporation (NASDAQ: PMD), the world leader and pioneer in detecting drugs of abuse using hair analysis, today introduced the first FDA-cleared hair test for cotinine, the predominant metabolite for nicotine. This test provides a way … Read more

More CBD Education Required before we call CBD a Cure-all

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I read a column in my local paper serving a community north of Boston of about 100,000 people recently where the columnist, who is an MD, extolled the virtues of CBD products in almost miracle drug proportion.  I immediately thought to myself about how people are being educated so they can make informed decisions.  I … Read more

Psychemedics Test for Fentanyl Detection Cleared by FDA

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Industry’s first and only FDA-cleared Fentanyl screen available now ACTON, MA, April 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Psychemedics Corporation (NASDAQ:PMD), the world leader and pioneer in detecting drugs of abuse using hair analysis, today introduced the industry’s first and only FDA-cleared hair test for Fentanyl, a major killer increasingly found in illegal drugs. According to … Read more