Etg/ets testing

First you should understand that there aren't many elimination studies dealing with heavy alcohol use and those that do exist are generally conducted on unrepresentative populations such as detox patients, psychiatric units, etc.

The lack of uniform standards in research was noted by Wojcik & Hawthorne in 2007: ....many different limits of detection are used for differentiating between positives and negatives, and sensitivity and the window of detection was typically reported only in very general terms using phrases like up to 80 h, or up to 5 days, without the caveat that these detection windows apply only to the most extreme cases. .......The situation hasn't improved.

There are several studies that use 500 cutoff. That is now the recommended cutoff. Yet in the commercial testing services these recommendations are generally ignored. As a result there is no way of knowing what the cutoff is and/or how it is reported.

The test is currently being reviewed again by SAMHSA. They issued an advisory in 2006 pointing out the unreliatility of the test. Since that time almost every original claim of the original researchers (Wurst, etal) has been discredited. Yet use of the test increased in the private market. Millions of EtG tests are conducted each year. No uniformity. No regulation.

I see your point. I asked the question in regards to elimination because you seem to be an expert when it comes to etg testing and I have read your repsponses to questions that people have asked regarding elimination or if they were in the good zone after a particular amount of time. I know at 8 days it would not pose a problem, because of the drinking no matter what the cut off is.

Sorry it took so long to get back to you guys... I passed.

Thanks for all the awesome feedback, and to you Dr. Bill for scaring me straight. Been abstinent since the wedding!