Drug and alcohol testing

Alcohol and recreational drug use can cause hazards in the workplace. Increasingly, companies are looking to test employees for such drugs to ensure safe workplaces. Aotea Pathology can help you with those tests.

Drug testing may also be useful in pre-employment assessment programmes.

Drug testing programmes can:

improve workplace safety
improve productivity
help employees overcome or modify their patterns of use of such substances

Drugs concentrate and excrete well in urine. Aotea Pathology provides a service, by appointment, for urine drug testing.

The collection and testing of the urine sample is carried out in accordance with AS/NZS 4308:2008.

Aotea Pathology offers this collection service by appointment only. Testing is carried out by Canterbury Health Laboratories.

The drugs we test for

Cannaboids (marijuana)
Amphetamines (speed and ecstasy, for example)
Benzodiazepines (valium, for example)
Cocaine
Opiates (heroin and morphine, for example)
Barbiturates
Alcohol