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Author: gabby |
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Date Posted: Wed, Mar 20 2013, 6:47:28 In reply to: tlcme 's message, "Re: I am living a nightmare again" on Tue, Mar 19 2013, 8:58:09 Actually I did that when I signed my contract with IPN. They said they understand my medical history but they have to test me any way with etg. They said if I started having positives then they would look at other methods to monitor me I got in contact with another girl from ipn with same problems except she has diabetes. She too was pulled from work made to get an eval, her addict Dr said he didn't recommend any one with diabetes to be tested with etg. They ordered blood alcohol by blood. Well when affinity took over she they started to test her again. She even showed a positive alcohol on her urine drug screen. She had to remind them of her history , they let it go that time I had someone in my group test positive and he told them he had diabetes and they let him off the hook. Actually the experts say that diabetes has nothing to do with posiitve etg, possible alcohol in urine but not etg I don't trust any of these experimental tests that is what they are, the guy you introduced etg to usa and to monitoring programs now warns • Some individuals appear to produce more EtG for a given exposure to ethanol than others. This is probably associated with a known genetic polymorphism in the human UDP-glucuronyl transferase enzyme system. The exact limits of this variation are not known. • A positive EtG is not necessarily proof of intentional alcoholic beverage consumption. Low level positive tests are known to occur due to incidental exposure. The cutoff for possible incidental exposure vs. intentional use has not been accurately established, due to many factors including; amount of "incidental" exposure, individual metabolism, hydration, kidney function, etc.. For the above reasons it is advisable, whenever possible, to refrain from taking action against an employee or licensee based on urine EtG testing alone. When a positive EtG test is reported, if alcohol use is denied, we encourage the use of clinical evaluation by a Medical Review Officer and Addiction Medicine specialists to more fully assess the meaning of a positive test. We encourage Boards, Courts, and/or Employers to include expert opinion involving thorough clinical evaluation to help interpret positive test results. Despite the above limitation many monitoring programs have found EtG testing to be useful for early detection of alcohol use. EtG is a far superior marker for recent alcohol use than previous tests. More investigation is currently underway. Gabby [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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