Additional Findings

摘要

Additional findings from the Drug Testing Index data collected between January and December 2011 include:1.Positivity rates for oxyco-done from more than 500,000 tests in the general U.S. workforce are 10% higher than in 2010 (1.0% vs. 1.1 %) and up 25% since 2007.2.Positivity for opiates in the general workforce is up nearly 7.7% from 2010 (0.39% vs. 0.42%) and up 20% since 2007. 3.Positivity for propoxy-phene in the general workforce was down 84.7% from 2010(0.38% vs. 0.06%). Propoxyphene was pulled off the market in November 2010 because the drug was found to put patients at risk for potentially serious or even fatal heart rhythm abnormalities.