Alcohol/Drug Testing

Overview

The Alcohol/Drug Testing Approval and Permit Program helps to formulate and enforce the Director of Health’s Administrative Rules OAC 3701-53-01 through 10. Functions of this Program involve:

• Approving techniques to determine the concentration of alcohol in blood, urine and breath
   
• Approving techniques to determine the concentration of drugs in blood and urine
   
• Approving evidential breath testing instruments
   
• Devising protocols to insure the proper and consistent operation of evidential breath testing instruments
   
• Overseeing the certification of Simulator Solutions used in evidential breath testing
   
• Promulgating basic requirements for personnel performing breath, and blood or urine testing for alcohol, and blood or urine testing for alcohol or drugs
   
• Promulgating basic proficiency requirements pursuant to breath, and blood or urine testing for alcohol, and blood or urine testing for alcohol or drugs
   
• Promulgating basic requirements for the retention of records and specimens pursuant to breath for alcohol, and blood and urine for alcohol or drugs
   
• Issuing permits for breath, and blood or urine testing for alcohol, and blood or urine testing for alcohol or drugs
   
• Revoking permits from permit holders who fail to comply with OAC 3701-53-01 through 09
   

Services

The Alcohol/Drug Testing Approval and Permit Program routinely provides expert testimony in support of OAC 3701-53-01 through 10. It also participates in education programs pursuant to alcohol and drug testing and regulation.

Mailing Address:
Ohio Department of Health
Alcohol & Drug Testing
P.O. Box 1430
Reynoldsburg, OH  43068-6430 

Telephone: (614) 644-4609
Fax: (614) 728-9179

E-mail: BADT@odh.ohio.gov

Last Updated: 6/01/09