Laboratory Resources

Information about opioids

In July 2017, ExamOne announced it offers an expanded opioid panel for life insurers. For the last three decades, ExamOne has offered two main options (see table below) for full urine drug screens to help insurers identify risk in the insurance population.

These screens were developed in the 1980s and are recommended by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA, formerly the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIDA) for the testing of certain federal employees, as well as specified Department of Transportation (DOT) regulated occupations.

The expanded panel detects semi-synthetic opioid use and includes the following drugs: codeine, morphine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone, oxymorphone, fentanyl and heroin. As with all drug testing, positive screens are confirmed with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (gc/ms).

Learn more about the risks and impacts of opioid abuse in America

The risks of opioid for life insurersopens PDF file

10 facts about opioids

One in 4 individuals combine opioids and benzodiazepines

Illicit drug use in the US is at the highest rate in a decade

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