Services We Offer at Substance Abuse Consultants

The Medical Review Officer, MRO, serves as the "manager" between all participants in a drug test (i.e., the donor, the collector, the test facility (lab), and the employer). MRO’s at Substance Abuse Consultants provide comprehensive reliable MRO services with the requirements outlined by the United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).

The Substance Abuse Professional (SAP) is a person who evaluates employees who have violated a DOT drug and alcohol program regulation and makes recommendations concerning education, treatment, follow-up testing, and aftercare. Our certified SAPs counselors can help keep your company compliant & safe, while keeping the public safer.

Substance Abuse Consultants are the providers & managers of the Association of Clean Waterways Group. We help charter captains, aspiring charter captains and all maritime personnel required to be drug free in accordance with USCG requirements keep their licenses.

The DOT and the FMCSA has stringent requirements regarding those with a CDL to be drug free and be regularly tested. Our Medical Review Officers can help your company, fleet, and drivers prove they're complying with federal regulations as required by the Dept of Transportation and the FMCSA guidelines to ensure our roadways are safe.

Much like the DOT requires those driving vehicles on our roadways with a CDL, the Federal Aviation Administration also mandates that all pilots, maintenance workers, air traffic controllers, and other personnel working in the aviation field be drug free. Substance Abuse Consultants offers medical review officer services to pilots, ground crew, controllers and stewards stay compliant with FAA guidelines.

Hospitals & healthcare staff, nurses, doctors, physicians, therapists, down to house cleaning & nutrition have to be drug screened as well and they make up a large portion of our client base. We can be your occupational medicine, hospital system's personal MRO provider to review drug screens of your new and existing healthcare labor force.

Join our accredited DOT consortium random drug testing program for CMVs, CDL holders, bus drivers, tow truck companies & whoever is regulated by FMCSA. Whether you are a large shipping company, construction business, or owner-operator of an 18 wheeler semi truck driver we can handle your random drug screening compliance.

Our children are our most protected population as they should be. So it should come as no surprise - teachers, educators, staff, administrators, principles, superintendents, and those put in charge of educating our future leaders are held to a high-standard. Universities, elementary, middle school, high-school, private & public school systems, and school districts require their employees be tested prior to being hired to be around children.

We are an accredited & certified random drug testing program manager for all careers mandated by the FAA. Aviation careers that require regular drug testing include: pilots, attendants, stewards, mechanics, engineers, dispatchers, air controllers, & ground personnel.

Those folks that work to keep the public protected such as police officers, firemen, ambulance drivers, administrators, and 911 operators in all states, are subject to drug testing prior to employment and during their time with the offices they serve. City, county, municipal, state, Federal, and judicial branches of government will need medical review officers to assist in verifying drug test results.

Not only does the Department of Transportation require those with a CDL transporting goods on our roadways to be regularly drug tested, those who operate heavy machinery such as excavators & bull dozers and cranes or work on around them, those who build roads, bridges, high-rises & do infrastructure work also have to be screened.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has a mission to protect people and the environment by advancing the safe transportation of energy and other hazardous materials that are essential to our daily lives. This industry includes operators of gas, carbon dioxide pipelines, hazardous liquids, and liquified natural gas facilities. These employees are often working in dangerous surroundings, making drug abuse on the job even more concerning.

Our office has many occupational medicine clients that use our medical review officers, and SAPs after they do the drug screens & physicals for their employer clients. The occupational medicine office will collect the sample, start the chain of custody, send in the sample to our lab partners, and we do the medical reviews for them. If a non-negative is confirmed to be a positive they then refer our Substance Abuse Counseling services.

The athletic world is very strict about not only illegal drugs but also steroids', and other performance enhancing compounds that make competition unfair. Our office can perform the medical review for any and all athletic organizations from universities, professional, NCAA, SEC, NFL, MLB, MLS, USTA, NHL, ACC, BIG 10, and semi-pro leagues.