Haircutting for Drug Test - What would you do?

madison · #1 06-15-2007, 10:31 PM

I just got a new position with a great company and they sent me to have a drug test - a hair drug test. I've never had one before, so I wasn't sure what to expect.

I should have known that it was not going to go well when the medical assistant that explained the test to me told me that this was her first one and she had just finished watching a DVD on how to conduct one.

She asked me to take the clip out of my hair because she needed to pull from the crown of my head. I was thinking pull...good...a couple strands..no biggie! After all, they can get DNA from 1 strand of hair.

The next thing I hear is the sound of scissors cutting a big chunk from the crown of my head. I'm not talking about 5 strands. There were probably 30 to 40 strands of hair in the clump that she cut out. I was speechless...First of all, my hair is thin enough and I need every piece I have!!!

So ladies, if you knew this was the protocol ahead of time (unlike me!), and it was a must for an incredible job, would you do it?

Scott Hutchinson · #2 06-15-2007, 10:34 PM

I think they can give you a drug test another way.

Neck · #3 06-16-2007, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson

I think they can give you a drug test another way.

A hair sample gives them a 3 month sample of your timeline.

If you smoked POT or took many other drugs it will be found in the hair.

They can even guess as to how long ago you did the drug.

That is why in the mid 1990's many major league baseball players decided to go bald. Many still shave their heads today.

Many started growing hair again since they aren't tested so much now.

It was not a fad as many folks thought.

They would shave their entire bodies.

They would file their nails as to not leave clippings of their nails on the floor.

Why?

So a reporter or MLB rep could grap the clippings and save them for a future test.

See hair and nails can be tested years later.

Those players did not want someone testing them 10 years later to see what was in their system.

When testing for the Steroids they used years earlier could not be detected because there was not a test to detect that steroid.

Neckstadt

berkeley · #4 06-15-2007, 10:35 PM

A hair follicle test is practically foolproof.

Rico · #5 06-15-2007, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by madison

I just got a new position with a great company and they sent me to have a drug test - a hair drug test. I've never had one before, so I wasn't sure what to expect.

I should have known that it was not going to go well when the medical assistant that explained the test to me told me that this was her first one and she had just finished watching a DVD on how to conduct one.

She asked me to take the clip out of my hair because she needed to pull from the crown of my head. I was thinking pull...good...a couple strands..no biggie! After all, they can get DNA from 1 strand of hair.

The next thing I hear is the sound of scissors cutting a big chunk from the crown of my head. I'm not talking about 5 strands. There were probably 30 to 40 strands of hair in the clump that she cut out. I was speechless...First of all, my hair is thin enough and I need every piece I have!!!

So ladies, if you knew this was the protocol ahead of time (unlike me!), and it was a must for an incredible job, would you do it?

Sister, 30-40 hairs really isn't all that much in the grand scheme of the numbers of hair on your head, even if it is a bit thin. I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you don't believe in getting your hair cut it's not like you went out and got the latest hairdoo or anything like that.