Contact us today to schedule your next cost effective, safe and private urinalysis needed for your professional and/or personal needs:  Urinalysis available upon request on site or in home.  Call for details.

Call or email Now to Order your "In-Home tests"!!

 Legal         Career          Health           Family

 785-845-5416   or  jlees@topekatherapy.com

How is it used?

Urinalysis is used as a screening and/or diagnostic tool because it can detect different metabolic and kidney disorders. In some conditions, it also provides an easy, economical, and relatively fast test to monitor ongoing patient progress, for example, if you want to know whether a condition is getting better or worse. However, a urinalysis cannot detect all disorders. In other words, even an unhealthy person might provide a "normal" urine sample.

When is it ordered?

A routine urinalysis may be done when you are admitted to the hospital. It may also be part of a wellness exam, a new pregnancy evaluation, or a work-up for a planned surgery. A urinalysis will most likely be performed if you see your health care provider complaining of abdominal pain, back pain, painful or frequent urination, or blood in the urine. This test can also be useful in monitoring whether a condition is getting better or worse.

What does the test result mean?

Urinalysis results can have many interpretations. Normal urinalysis results do not mean there is no illness. Urinalysis is only one screening test that can provide a general overview of a person’s health. Your doctor must correlate the urinalysis results with your health complaints and other information available.

PLEASE NOTE: Numerically reported test results are interpreted according to the test's reference range, which may vary by the patient's age, sex, as well as the instrumentation or kit used to perform the test.

Redwood Toxicology Laboratory is one of the world's premier forensic drug detection laboratories offering its customers scientifically accepted, legally defensible drug detection services. 

Visit www.redwoodtoxicology.com to learn more about our affiliate company.

Redwood Toxicology Laboratory, Inc. • 3650 Westwind Blvd. • Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Phone: (800) 255-2159 • E-mail rtl@redwoodtoxicology.com

On-Site Urinalysis:

The Redwood Biotech RediCup™ is a lateral flow chromatographic immunoassay for the qualitative detection of multiple drugs and drug metabolites in urine.

The multi-drug configurations test for any the following analytes: Methamphetamine, Amphetamine, Barbiturates, Benzodiazepines, Cocaine Metabolites, Methadone, Opiates (300 or 2000 ng/ml cutoff), Phencyclidine, Cannabinoids (THC), Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCA), and Ecstasy (MDMA).

The RediCup drug screen device is FDA 510K cleared to market and is ideal for pre-employment, corrections, clinical and hospital use.

• Available tests include: *AMP, M-AMP, BAR, BZO, COC, MDMA, MTD, OPI, PCP, TCA and THC.
• Self contained cup minimizes collector exposure to urine
• Performance comparable to laboratory screening methods
• Results in 5 minutes
• Flexible 4-6, and 10 drug test combinations
• FDA 510K cleared to market
• NIDA 5 cut-off levels meet SAMHSA guidelines

The Panel Dip Device is a lateral flow chromatographic immunoassay for the qualitative detection of multiple drug metabolites in urine at the following cut-off concentrations:

Professional Shipping and Testing

Scientifically Accepted Testing Methods

Only FDA approved testing systems are utilized:

RTL's methodologies have been proven legally defensible through many years of court challenged scrutiny.

RTL's GC/MS methods are developed and validated by experienced and board certified toxicologists and application chemists.   

Methods employed are "tried and true" as recommended by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the College of American Pathologists (CAP). 

Contact us today to schedule your next cost effective, safe and private urinalysis needed for your professional and/or personal needs:  Urinalysis available upon request on site or in home.  Call for details.

Call or email Now to Order your "In-Home tests"!!

 Legal         Career          Health           Family

 785-845-5416   or  jlees@topekatherapy.com

Chemical Dependency is a condition resulting from excessive drinking of beverages that contain alcohol or excessive use of narcotics (both legal and illegal). Alcohol and narcotic dependence, is a disease that includes the following four symptoms:

Physical dependence: withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety after stopping drinking.

Tolerance: the need to drink/use greater amounts of alcohol to get "high".

Craving: a strong need, or urge, to drink/use narcotics. 

Loss of control: Not being able to stop drinking/using once drinking has begun.

Heavy drinking is widespread.

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, nearly 20% of patients treated in general medical practices report drinking at levels considered "risky" or "hazardous." They may be at risk for developing alcohol-related problems as a result.The major health risks of alcoholism include liver disease, heart disease, certain forms of cancer, pancreatitis, and nervous system disorders. These conditions often develop more gradually and may become evident only after long-term heavy drinking. Women may develop alcohol-related health problems after consuming less alcohol than men do. Women also tend to have health problems appear soon then men. The liver is particularly vulnerable to diseases related to heavy drinking, most commonly, alcoholic hepatitis (inflammation) or cirrhosis (scarring of the liver).

Experts have defined a second problem, called alcohol abuse, as something different from alcoholism. The difference is that those who abuse alcohol do not have an extremely strong craving for alcohol, loss of control over drinking, or physical dependence. People who abuse alcohol also can develop the physical symptoms related to alcoholism, however. Alcohol abuse is defined as a pattern of drinking that results in particular situations, such as failure to fulfill major work, school or home duties, or having recurring alcohol-related legal problems, such as arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Testing for Alcoholism

Two different types of tests are used to help diagnose a case of alcoholism. Laboratory tests are one component. The other type of testing includes surveys or inventories to elicit responses from patients.

No single laboratory test or combination of tests has been shown to be optimal in screening for or diagnosing alcoholism. There are, however, several tests that are useful in evaluating patients:

• Carbohydrate-deficient form of transferrin (CDT), a molecule involved in iron transport in blood. CDT is a newer test that can be used to help in screening and diagnosis of alcoholism. It may also help in the monitoring of patients in treatment to learn whether they have relapsed.

• Gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), a liver enzyme that is increased by heavy alcohol intake.
• Mean corpuscular volume (MCV), which measure the size of red blood cells.

The GGT result is more useful than the MCV result as a “red flag” to raise the suspicion that the person is drinking too much. Both of these tests are relatively poor as either a screening or diagnostic test because conditions other than alcohol abuse or alcoholism can cause elevated levels.

Physical examination also may reveal signs suggestive of alcoholism, such as evidence of injuries, a visible network of enlarged veins just under the skin around the navel (called caput medusae), fluid in the abdomen (ascites), yellowish-tone to the skin, decreased testicular size in men, and poor nutritional status.