Posted by moonface on December 23, 1996 at 17:00:21:
In Reply to: Re: Insurance tests posted by Just Wonderin on December 22, 1996 at 06:32:06:
: Does everyone agree with this?? Is steroid testing still to expensive for
: businesses(as in drug screening at work) to do??Ive heard metabolite testing
: urine was cheaper now. Any input would be appreciated. Thanx!
You have to remember, testing for drugs like cocaine/marijuanna/heroin is quite simple compaired to anabolics. For pot, they look for THC (Actually a TCH derrivative) for Heroin, the test is for it's metabolite (Morphine) but there is no test for "Steroids". They have to trest for the nandrolones, Dianabol, Anavar etc. etc. down the list of unique compounds, all individually. For testosterone they can't simply test for it, as you are already supposed to have it in your body, so they check the testosterone/epi-testosterone ratio to see if it's normal. Basically I can rant on but I'm sure as you can see an Anabolics screen is actually a complicated test searching for dozenz upon dozens of unique compounds. How cheap could they possibly make that? Besides, most labs are not and have never been equiped for such screens unless they specialize in that sort of thing.