Clinical
Our Commitment to
Clinical Excellence
We are dedicated to clinical excellence, from the quality of our testing, to offering resources, education, and the reporting of real-time drug use trends. Our Clinical Affairs team is passionate about providing everything needed for clinicians to get the most of their patients’ test results, and includes:
- A credentialed field clinical team of PharmDs, PhDs and a nurse clinical resource specialist
- Toxicologists available via our RADAR® Hotline
Millennium Health in the News
Processing over a million specimens each year allows us to provide real-time analytics and positioned Millennium Health as a valuable resource for national and regional media covering important topics including the drug overdose crisis and emerging trends in illicit and prescription drug use in the U.S.
Our research has been featured in:
Providing Timely Data
on Drug Use Trends
As part of our commitment to clinical excellence, we conduct ongoing evaluation of our drug test results (using Intellium℠) with the goal of providing timely information to help improve the efficient use of available resources and ultimately curb the significant impact of drug overdose deaths.
Millennium Health’s Ongoing
Commitment to Service,
Support and Clinical Education
Collaboration with the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
Processing over a million specimens each year allows us to provide real-time analytics regarding emerging drug use trends, such as our studies published in JAMA Network Open and the Millennium Health Signals Report™ and has resulted in our collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help fight our nation’s drug overdose crisis.
Peer Reviewed Studies Published in Journals such as JAMA
Definitive urine drug test findings in patients prescribed opioids for pain from a large national database
Guevara M, LaRue L, Zacharoff, KL, Whitley P, Passik SD. Definitive urine drug test findings in patients prescribed opioids for pain from a large national database. Journal of Opioid Management, 18(4), 361–375. doi.org/10.5055/jom.2022.0723
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Association of Patients’ Direct Addition of Buprenorphine to Urine Drug Test Specimens With Clinical Factors in Opioid Use Disorder
Pytell JD, Whitley P, Passik SD, Bundy WL, Dawson E, Saloner B. Association of Patients’ Direct Addition of Buprenorphine to Urine Drug Test Specimens With Clinical Factors in Opioid Use Disorder. JAMA Psychiatry. 2023;80(5):459–467. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.0234
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Millennium Health Signals Report™
Millennium Health is committed to reporting on emerging drug use trends. Processing over a million specimens each year allows us to provide real-time analytics through our proprietary database of urine drug results. Our annual Millennium Health Signals Report identifies national, regional, and state drug use trends. Through our collaboration with clinicians, policy makers, and public health agencies, these innovative reports help improve the efficient use of available resources and positively impact the lives of patients, their families, and communities.
Education Resources and
Programs for Clinicians
Millennium Health is dedicated to supporting patient care by providing resources and education. We have a variety of educational pieces and technical bulletins designed to help you interpret test results and support clinical decision-making.
Our education programs cover a myriad of topics relevant to your practice and patient population, including the clinical value of urine drug testing in the management of pain, mental health, and substance use disorders, risk management when prescribing controlled substances, and current trends in the use of natural and synthetic drugs. Programs can be scheduled with your local Sales Representative to be delivered virtually or live by a member of our field Clinical Affairs team.
Clinical Excellence Committee
The Clinical Excellence Committee (CEC) was developed to research and help establish criteria for what constitutes clinically effective, medically necessary, and diagnostically relevant laboratory testing in substance use disorder settings and other areas of medicine.