Fentanyl Approved for Federal Workforce -- DOT Next

• Federal workforce drug testing guidelines have been approved to remove screening for MDMA—which has only rarely appeared in workers’ urine samples during recent years—and add testing for fentanyl, a substance that’s become far more widespread in unregulated drug markets over the past decade.

  
  

• Both MDMA—which the federal government could reschedule later this year—and the related substance MDA, which the government would also remove from inclusion in required drug tests under the proposed changes, were less common in tests than PCP, which was also considered for removal from the testing panel but for now will remain.

  
  

• Now the DOT will need to “harmonize” their testing panel to the revised federal panel. Watch for the comment period.