Drug Screening

Drug screening can protect your employees and your business from unforeseen consequences. Premium Investigations makes the process simple and fast, so you can get back to your work day.

Our rapid drug panel screens for the presence of cocaine, methamphetamines, amphetamines, and opioids in a urine sample. For a more in-depth drug test, which can screen for up to nine substances, we partner with Quest Diagnostics laboratories.

Drug screenings can be ordered when you order a background check.

a PI drug screening administrator with drug screening equipment at a table, explaining the process to an employee who is sitting on the other side of the table

Our Drug Screenings Include:

Rapid Drug Panel: cocaine • methamphetamine • amphetamines • opiates (300ng/ml threshold)

4-Panel Drug Testing, outsourced to Quest Diagnostics: amphetamines • cocaine • oxycodone • phencyclidine (PCP) • Add-on Opiates Panel

9-Panel Drug Testing, outsourced to Quest Diagnostics: barbiturates • benzodiazepines • cocaine • methadone • methaqualone • oxycodone • phencyclidine (PCP) • propoxyphene • Add-on Opiates Panel

Pre-Employment – Have confidence in who you hire. You can order drug screening or testing for prospective employees with your background check requests. Results are available in our background screening portal as soon as they return. No more wondering and waiting if your applicant submitted a sample.

Random Workplace Drug Screenings – Keeping your workplace drug-free doesn’t stop after hiring. PI can go to your workplace to collect samples, reducing the amount of disruptions to your employees’ schedule. We also work fast; it takes us on average two hours to collect samples from a small business of 20 people. If you order drug tests, the samples will be sent to Quest Diagnostics. The results are returned quickly, allowing you to make informed decisions.

Post-Accident – Post-accident drug testing can protect your company from liability, which is why our staff are only a phone call away. PI provides emergency drug testing to employers within a 30-mile radius of our office. We’ll come to you and collect a sample for laboratory testing that can detect substances taken hours or even days beforehand. The results from screenings allow you and your clients to make necessary, informed, and proactive decisions.


Location – Drug screenings can be done at PI’s offices, located on Central Ave in Albany. We can also come to your workplace to collect samples. The process is fast and simple, creating very few disruptions to your employees’ work schedule.