Most Popular Drug Test Kit and its Applications

Many people are often confused with the enormous product range of drug test kits available in the market. Even though there are test kits which can effectively detect the individual drugs, they are of less use when the abused drug is unknown. Also, it is not worth to get kit for each and every drug and test it. It makes the person who conducts as well the person who provides the sample very frustrated. The invent of multi-panel drug test kits, successfully eliminated this confusion, by detecting multiple drugs at a single shot using the same specimen.

However, the availability of huge variety of drug test kits again left the people in a dilemma, as they are confused to choose the right combination. Keeping in mind all the above mentioned difficulties and problems, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, made a thorough research and came out with a group of drugs which are found to be mostly abused among different groups of people. They named them as NIDA 5, which are later called as SAHMSA 5. These drugs are found to be extensively used by the people in US. This made the evolution of NIDA 5 panel drug test kits, which are later termed as the effective kits for drug detection, especially during the early stages.

NIDA or SAMSHA 5 panel drug test kits are able to detect the SAMHSA 5 drugs namely - Amphetamines, Cannabinoids (THC), Cocaine, Opiates, and Phencyclidine(PCP). As these drugs are widely in use by different kinds of people, the test kit is found to be effective for drug detections. However, in case of broader range of drug testing more paneled drug testing kits like 10-12 panel are required.

Using the mentioned drug test kits which are approved by FDA and set to the cutoff levels of SAMHSA or NIDA, could give accurate results for all the drug tests conducted using these drug test kits. NIDA/SAMHSA 5 are found to be the effective ones for drug testing at important places like schools and workplaces.