What is the customary charge for a urine drug screen?

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2. I have no idea how much they actually cost but other knowledge makes me think that's legit.

Other knowledge: More than 95% of employer drug screening test are never actually done (at employer request) because of the cost...they just collect the urine, temp-check it, monitor the testee for erratic behavior that often is an indicator that they would have failed (basically guilty people act differently or do things that don't make sense unless they're cheating.)...and mail it to the lab where it's typically thrown away.

Why go through all that? So the people at the testing center and potential employees don't know which employers are testing versus merely collecting.

Think about it for a moment. I used to work for one of the largest banks in America. They hire 200 people a day on average company-wide. 200 times even $1000/test is $200K...that's a quarter's worth of profits for an entire branch. They have better things to spend $200K on. We know they're not testing because one of my coworkers was a long-time friend and that kid has been high for years straight. The only tests actually being done were the handful of people company-wide tabbed daily for random testing (maybe) and the employees being ordered to take a test on suspicion of workplace drug-use.