You will need to check-in every day, by phone (with a PIN) or by logging onto the web site (with your password). You will be notified if it's your day to submit a sample. You will have access to information regarding local collection sites (labs) where you can go and conveniently leave a sample any time that day.

Reports will be provided to whomever you request receive a report(s). Don't worry! If there is a positive we have a doctor check with you first before a report is issued. The doctor will verify, by discussing it with you, whether there is a legitimate reason for the positive test, and if so the test result would be changed to a negative test. (In other words you will not be penalized if you have to take medication or some other legitimate form of treatment.)

The purposes of monitoring are twofold: 1. Accountability - You will know that if you use an addictive substance you will be detected. Knowledge of this fact alone will help you avoid temptation. You should closely adhere to any continuing care plan, self-help group meeting attendance, and all other therapeutic activities to help yourself stay sober. The drug testing is extra assurance - sober assurance. If a relapse occurs (and hopefully it won't, as most relapses are very painful and fraught with difficulties) the most important thing is not to consider it terminal failure. Much can be learned from a relapse and sometimes a relapse can produce the ultimate awareness of the seriousness of addiction or alcoholism that can produce the needed attention to recovery to succeed.

2. Documentation - to help you prove your recovery. Many times we must fill out forms when applying for jobs, life insurance, licenses, etc, etc, that ask about recovery. Also, monitoring helps assure relatives, loved ones, and friends, and helps restore trust. Monitoring provides documentation of your recovery and can therefore be used to advocate on your behalf.