FRIENDS Experience

Since 1963, Friends Medical Laboratory has been a partner in the fight against drug addiction. We pioneered the use of thin layer chromatography for drug treatment monitoring and have continued to add newer, modern technologies as the industry has evolved including Oral Fluids, Hair and LCMS analysis.

Together with Friends Multi-Services, we remain driven to meet your drug abuse treatment and business needs.

  • Comprehensive drug panels including the major classes of narcotics, inhalants, prescription medication and specialty drugs of abuse.
  • Daily collections in our laboratory in Baltimore. In addition, we offer on-site collections (those at your location) by pre-arrangement. Regular courier pickup of specimens in the Baltimore-Washington area. Fedex and overnight shipping elsewhere.
  • 24 hour turn-around on most results. (Confirmation testing within 48 hours.) E-mail, fax and online reporting services.
  • In-Service classes to help your staff understand how drug testing works and can help improve your treatment services.
  • CLIA certified laboratory participating in regular external proficiency testing programs to ensure our clients get the most reliable results.
  • Decades of experience representing the accuracy of our testing in state and federal courts.

Latest Lab News

COCAINE'S NEWEST RISK Scientific American, September 2011 Edition To the list of cocaine's many dangers, health officials have added at least one more: purpura, a rash caused by internal bleeding from small blood vessels. Two recent papers in major medical journals have documented cases of cocaine users showing up in emergency rooms with patches of blackened, dying skin on the ears, face, trunk or extremities. The condition causes scarring and sometimes requires reconstructive surgery. Noah Craft, a dermatologist at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center who co-authored a paper on the condition published online by the Journal of the American Academy of

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LABORATORY STANDARDS AND EXCELLENCE

We utilize the latest drug screening technologies as well as perfecting tried-and-true methodologies and pioneering the field of identifying drugs of abuse.

  • Enzyme Immunoassay
  • ELISA
  • Oral Fluids
  • Hair testing
  • Blood alcohol
  • BAT
  • DOT
  • Thin Layer Chromotagraphy
  • GC/MS Confirmation
  • LC/MS/MS Confirmation

 

 

 

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