The Retail Trade industry saw the highest overall drug positivity rate at 7% and also saw a 55.6% increase in positive methamphetamine drug tests between 20.Įncouragingly, the positivity rates for heroin and other opioids over the past year decreased or stayed the same across all workforces. Accommodations and Food Services topped the lists with a 7.5 % marijuana positivity rate. Positive marijuana test results doubled or more than doubled in six of the seventeen industries tracked: Transportation and Warehousing Finance and Insurance Utilities Accommodations and Food Services Retail Trade and Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Over five years, positivity for marijuana in the general U.S.
Positive urine drug tests for marijuana climbed to the highest rate ever recorded. Not surprisingly, positive marijuana test rates continue to increase. Although the overall positivity rates rose by only 1.8% since 2020, they were 12% higher than in 2017 and have risen steadily over the past five years. Of the seventeen industries tracked, all but mining saw an increase in overall positivity rates from 2017 to 2021. The study was based on more than 11 million urine, hair and oral fluid drug tests collected during calendar year 2021. According to a new Quest Diagnostic Study analyzing workplace drug test results in 2021, employers saw the highest rate of positive drug test results in twenty years.
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