12 Panel Drug Test Cups & Dip Cards

What a 12-panel test covers

The base ten-panel set screens urine samples for drugs including marijuana, cocaine, opiates, amphetamines and PCP (phencyclidine, also called angel dust); twelve panels typically add propoxyphene, tricyclic antidepressants or morphine on top of that set. With nineteen configurations, panel testing by count alone tells you very little — read the chart on each product.

Where the configurations diverge

The common variables are morphine versus opiates, MDMA versus tricyclics, and whether propoxyphene is included. One configuration adds a vacuum lid for transferring the specimen to a laboratory; one is a flat cup for tighter storage.

Adulteration and forensic options

Several add creatinine, specific gravity and pH. One configuration includes EtG and fentanyl, which places it in a different regulatory category — see below.

Regulatory status

Most twelve-panel configurations are CLIA-waived. Any configuration including EtG or fentanyl is For Forensic Use Only — not for clinical diagnosis and not for employment testing. Each product states its status.

Ordering

Cups are sold by the box of 25 tests. Dip cards are sold by the box of 25 cards.

Who orders twelve-panel screens

Twelve panels usually shows up as the next step up from a ten-panel policy — a program that has decided ten analytes no longer covers what it needs to see, without moving all the way to thirteen or fourteen. That makes the buyer a workplace testing program, a treatment or recovery service, a staffing agency screening for a range of clients, or a corrections or community-supervision program working from a written protocol. The order is placed against that protocol, not chosen product by product.

Comparing and ordering

Read this page alongside the 10-panel below it and the 13-panel above it, or start from the full range on drug test cups. Programs that also need to send samples on to a laboratory will find containers, transport bags and tubes under specimen collection.

Before you reorder

Check the analyte list and the format against the last order rather than against the category name: several configurations share the twelve-panel count but differ in which analytes fill the last few positions, and the same count ships here in more than one cup and card style. Confirming both before reordering is the fastest way to avoid a delivery that does not match what the protocol calls for.