At-home drug testing
in Santa Monica

Much of Santa Monica is multi-unit housing, so a drug test in the city is usually an apartment visit. Between Wilshire Boulevard and Pico, and along Lincoln Boulevard and Ocean Avenue, most addresses are multi-unit buildings with a callbox, a gate or a front desk, and the collector cannot reach your door without a unit number and a way through the entry. Send both in the app once a collector is assigned: the callbox code, or the name the front desk will recognize. North of Montana Avenue and in Sunset Park the addresses are houses, and the only question is parking on a permit street, which is the collector's problem.

Whether the address is in 90401 or 90405, the booking screen checks it against the live service area before you pay, and a collector reaches it in as little as 3 hours. Up the stairs or through the lobby, the first thing they do is match the private PIN on your screen; the specimen is then collected, temperature-checked and read on all 14 panels before they leave the building.

Santa Monica's offices cluster downtown and along Olympic Boulevard and Colorado Avenue on the east side of the city, mostly low-rise and mid-rise buildings with a lobby or a front desk; tell the collector which suite, and whom reception should call. Hotels along Ocean Avenue and downtown work like a home or an office: book to the street address, send the room number in the app once a collector is assigned, and tell the front desk to expect a visitor if guests are announced. Residential street parking in much of the city is by permit and the commercial streets are metered, which is the collector's concern, not yours. The 10 Freeway ends in Santa Monica, and Lincoln Boulevard and the boulevards that cross it carry the collector in; you choose the 30-minute window, from 7 AM to 7 PM on any day, and watch the collector's progress in the app. Employers can read how non-DOT workplace drug testing works.