drug test
noun
plural drug tests
1
: a test that examines a bodily specimen (as of urine, saliva, blood, or hair) for the presence of one or more usually illegal or banned substances (such as cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, or anabolic steroids)
a positive drug test
He was brandishing a shot-gun, and a drug test after his arrest revealed traces of PCP.—
Alan Light
When an athlete has been using EPO and faces a drug test, a standard way of passing it is to dilute his blood with a saline solution.—
Samuel Abt
… the one-year suspension California horse-racing officials gave him for a positive drug test on one of his horses while he was college student and part-time trainer.—
Joe Drape
2
: a study and especially a clinical trial for testing a therapeutic agent
The drug tests are blinded so that participating patients and doctors … don't know who is receiving the drug and who is receiving a placebo.—
Rhonda L. Rundle
drug test
transitive verb
drug tested; drug testing; drug tests
… some in the community may be wondering if elected officials or county employees can be randomly drug tested.
—
Brittany Stovall
drug testing
noun
plural drug testings
… after months of chemical analysis the lab found an anabolic steroid … which had been cleverly engineered to evade standard drug testing.
—
Malcolm Gladwell
We have to get medals and go to the interview room and into drug testing right after we swim.
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Matt Biondi
She was court ordered to attend meetings, classes and to submit to random drug testings.
—
Jaclyn OMalley
drug-testing labs
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