Drug-testing information changes as laws, laboratory standards, clinical guidance, and program manuals are revised. This policy explains how Drug Test Information reviews existing pages and corrects errors.
Types of changes
- Correction: fixes a factual, legal, medical, mathematical, or attribution error.
- Update: adds a new rule, guideline, source, or explanation without establishing that the earlier text was wrong when published.
- Clarification: improves wording where readers could reasonably misunderstand the scope.
- Maintenance: repairs links, formatting, spelling, or navigation.
Priority
We prioritize errors that could affect medical care, legal rights, employment, athletic eligibility, test interpretation, or a deadline. Broken primary-source links and outdated high-change rules are addressed before cosmetic issues.
How readers can report an issue
A useful report includes the page URL, exact disputed text, why it may be wrong, a current primary source, and the date the source was accessed. A commercial disagreement without supporting evidence does not require a change.
Evaluation process
- Preserve the report and locate the current page version.
- Review the cited source and the controlling authority.
- Assess the consequence and scope of the issue.
- Correct related pages and internal links where necessary.
- Record the review date and add an explanatory note for a material correction when it helps readers.
What receives a correction note
A visible note is appropriate when the earlier statement materially misstated a rule, health claim, testing process, numerical reference, or source. Minor spelling, style, formatting, and link changes generally do not receive a note.
Scheduled review
Pages are assigned a risk-based cycle. Annual or event-driven review is appropriate for federal rules, state-law surveys, WADA lists, NCAA manuals, clinical guidelines, cutoff tables, and device information. Foundational explanations may be reviewed less often unless evidence changes.
Archived and superseded material
When an older rule remains useful for historical context, it should be labeled with its effective dates and should not be presented as current. When a page cannot be safely updated, it may be replaced or withdrawn with an explanation.
Independence
Corrections are based on evidence. Advertisers, vendors, laboratories, employers, advocacy groups, and parties to disputes do not receive a right to rewrite coverage. Legitimate source material from any interested party will be evaluated on its merits.
Related: Editorial Standards and Sourcing and Citations Policy.