Products can help cheat on urine tests

BALTIMORE —Many employers count on drug testing to screen workers, and drug counselors rely on it to screen clients, but some say a growing market of over-the-counter products makes it easier to cheat

A WBAL-TV 11 News intern was sent into a store to buy something that could help cheat a drug test. He spent $20 and came out with XStream, which is one of many synthetic urine products on the market.

The manufacturer calls it a novelty item, not intended for unlawful use, and claims it has the same characteristics as real human urine.

"It should be a concern for anybody that has to test urine for drug analysis," said Israel Cason, who is the president and founder of I Can't, We Can, a drug recovery center in Baltimore's Park Heights neighborhood.

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