EAP Digest: Testing for Recent Alcohol Use

Article Description: Drug testing is a powerful tool in the prevention, early intervention, treatment, and the management of drug-related problems. Over the past 25 years, the use of drug testing has dramatically increased in business and industry. The Achilles’ heel to the current drug testing system has been that routine testing producers, until recently, excluded the most widely used intoxicant in the United States: Alcohol.