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Saliva vs. Hair Drug Testing: Which Should You Trust?

18 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube transcript of Amber Hollingsworth comparing saliva and hair drug testing. Amber emphasizes saliva (rapid tests) gives immediate results and is practical for prompt detection, while hair testing samples a chunk of hair, returns slowly, and—anecdotally—may miss drug use unless concentrations are high.

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A rapid saliva gives you immediate understanding. And again, that's what for. Sometimes people will. I've had people ask me about, like, the hair testing and stuff in the past. So if you're thinking about that for your logo, I do want you to know this number one, it's a chunk of hair. It's not like they pull a hair out your head. So, you know, if you're me and you have massive amount of hair and it's like, it doesn't that matter because, like, I can do underneath. But if you're like a dude who has like a short haircut, little bald spot, that's not even really why. But I have found I'm not laboratory or whatever they are. I've never had anything show up on a. On a hair test, on my clients who are telling me they're using drugs. Like, I'm like, I know they are using drugs. It has to be in such a high concentrate, I think that I. I've never seen anything show up, and that takes forever to come back.