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Drugs testing in Ireland

  • 07-08-2012 12:44pm
    #1
    ssmp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭


    I wonder if someone can assist me with this query.

    If someone asks their GP for a drugs test, what is the process involved? Does the GP do it there and then or send you elsewhere?


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  • #2
    Strawberry Fields
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Strawberry Fields


    Normally they do a urine sample and test it on the spot, if blood tests were required they'd have to send off to phlebotomy in the hospital.


  • #3
    ssmp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭ssmp


    godeas16 wrote: »
    Normally they do a urine sample and test it on the spot, if blood tests were required they'd have to send off to phlebotomy in the hospital.

    Thanks. Reason I asked was that someone told me that they requested a drugs test for cannabis from a GP and were just given a urine collection bottle to go and collect the sample whenever suited themselves and leave it up at the hospital lab themselves for analysis. No supervison just take at your own leisure. This sounds ridiculous to me but if that's how a test was performed and i wouldn't hold any faith!!


  • #4
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    ssmp wrote: »
    Thanks. Reason I asked was that someone told me that they requested a drugs test for cannabis from a GP and were just given a urine collection bottle to go and collect the sample whenever suited themselves and leave it up at the hospital lab themselves for analysis. No supervison just take at your own leisure. This sounds ridiculous to me but if that's how a test was performed and i wouldn't hold any faith!!

    Why would the gp care if the person cheated the sample if the patient requested it themselves? It would seem a bit foolish to have your self tested and cheat.


  • #5
    ResearchWill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭ResearchWill


    ssmp wrote: »
    Thanks. Reason I asked was that someone told me that they requested a drugs test for cannabis from a GP and were just given a urine collection bottle to go and collect the sample whenever suited themselves and leave it up at the hospital lab themselves for analysis. No supervison just take at your own leisure. This sounds ridiculous to me but if that's how a test was performed and i wouldn't hold any faith!!

    That type of test should not be accepted for a court sample. The correct procedure would be for the doctor to take the blood or witness the urine sample been given anything less should not be allowed for a court drugs test.

    If same test was used in court I would not like to be a doctor who did a test that way.


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