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UK Drug Testing News | 18th Feb 2022

UK Drug Testing News - 18th Feb 2022

Here’s a summary of some of the more interesting drug testing news stories and articles from around the UK this week. As always, if drugs are a concern for you, your family or your organisation, Zoom Testing is here to help. Contact us with all of your drug testing requirements. Benzodiazepines Benzodiazepines belong to a … Read more

UK Drug Testing News | 11th Feb 2022

UK Drug Testing News - 11th Feb 2022

Here’s a summary of some of the more interesting drug testing news stories and articles from around the UK this week. As always, if drugs are a concern for you, your family or your organisation, Zoom Testing is here to help. Contact us with all of your drug testing requirements. Cannabis Cannabis is the most … Read more

UK Drug Testing News | 4th Feb 2022

UK Drug Testing News – 4th Feb 2022

Here’s a summary of some of the more interesting drug testing news stories and articles from around the UK this week. As always, if drugs are a concern for you, your family or your organisation, Zoom Testing is here to help. Contact us with all of your drug testing requirements. Cannabis Cannabis is the most … Read more

How Long Does Cannabis Stay in Your System?

How Long Does Cannabis Stay in Your System?

One of the most frequent questions that we are asked at Zoom Testing is “How Long Does Cannabis Stay in Your System?” Many users of cannabis are often concerned about how long marijuana or hashish will remain detectable in their body. Certainly, nobody wants to risk losing his or her driving license or to test … Read more

Cocaine Use “Rife” In British Parliament

Cocaine Use "Rife" In British Parliament

A report in the Sunday Times has revealed that positive traces of cocaine use have been found in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. A dozen sites around the Palace of Westminster were found to have remnants of cocaine. These included bathrooms situated near the Prime Minister and Home Secretary’s offices. … Read more

COVID-19 and Drugs

COVID-19 and drugs

COVID-19 was first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The disease spread quickly and was declared as a global pandemic in March 2020 by the WHO (World Health Organization) Since then, no country has managed to avoid infection from the coronavirus. In this blog post we bring together resources that are focused on how … Read more

Anti-Cocaine Spray Proving Successful

Anti-Cocaine Spray Proving Successful

An Anti-Cocaine Spray, which cause the drug to stick to any surface it is prepared on, is proving to be a big success in a trial being run by County Durham police. The spray, known as BlokIt has been developed by a company called Millwood Manufacturing in a bit to reduce the use of cocaine … Read more

Two Arrested Following Drink Spike Video

Two arrests made after Bristol drink-spiking video

Police have today acted quickly following the appearance of an online video which apparently shows the drink of a female nightclubber being spiked. Two adults from Gloucestershire have been arrested and are in custody. It is thought they are being detained under suspicion of administering a noxious substance. The video, which was filmed in Bristol … Read more

Steep Rise in Opioid Painkiller Overdoses

Steep Rise in Opioid Painkiller Overdoses

Nearly 500,000 Americans have died in recent years as a result of opioid-related overdoses from OxyContin and similar drugs. The US is still in the grip of a crisis of drug dependency that is going to take a long time to fix. In the UK, we have also seen a steep rise in opioid-related overdoses. … Read more

MP’s Want to Raise the Legal Smoking Age to 21

MP's Want to Raise the Legal Smoking Age to 21

The government is considering banning cigarettes from being sold to those under 21 years of age as a way to improve public health. A group of influential cross-party MP’s proposed increasing the minimum smoking age as well as imposing a levy on the large tobacco producers to finance programs to help people stop smoking and … Read more