Pain Management Drug Test Cups
Pain Management Clinics focus on the diagnosis and management of chronic Pain. When medication is used as the preferred treatment plan drug testing is imperative for patient safety.
Interventional Pain Management has been one of the fastest growing segments in the medical field. Patients are often referred to pain management when pain persist and can’t be managed in the orthopedic or primary care setting.
Pain Management doctors treat chronic pain with the use of acupuncture, electric stimulation, nerve block, surgery and medication. Each option play a substantial roll but we focus on treatment with medication.
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Many pain patients find relief with the use of prescription drugs. Oxycodone and hydrocodone are often prescribed due to the drugs ability to manage pain. The use of prescription opiates, even on a small scale, could lead to addiction, abuse or diversion.
In order to manage the use of prescription medicine drug testing is key. Instant urine test kits can help the prescribing physician understand more about his or her patient. The 12 panel drug test cup offers a window into the patients recent past and present.
Many patients see many physicians at the same time. For example a patient could be seeing a psychiatrist and a pain management doctor at the same time. Each doctor could be prescribing drugs that negatively react with one another. Negative cross-reactions can lead to organ failure, coma and even death. The need to identify drugs in the body prior to writing a prescription could save lives.
In addition to identifying cross-reactions is the need to identify diversion. Diversion is when a patient uses a prescription drug not as intended. This would include selling the medication, taking too much or too little. Drug testing will help identify such behavior.
Drug screening is often used before medicines are prescribed and upon the follow up visit. During the follow up visit urine can be screened to determine if the drug is being consumed. If the drug test is negative it allows the physician to generate a conversation with the patient regarding the result.
Medical Distribution Group offers CLIA waived drug test cups for sale in many configurations. We have found many pain management clinics test for Opiates (OPI), Oxycodone (OXY), Methadone (MTD), Marijuana (THC), Cocaine (COC) benzodiazepines (BZD). Our 6 and 8 panel cups cover this market but we always recommend the 12 panel for the full list of drug classes.