Does LabCorp pat you down before a drug test?

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No, LabCorp does not pat you down before a drug test. LabCorp is the biggest drug testing company in the USA, far ahead of second-place Quest Diagnostics. They use a 9-panel drug test using one of three methods: urine, saliva, or hair.

Their drug testing procedure works as follows:

When you arrive prior to your appointment, you will need to check in. This will involve showing some identification to prove that you are the person submitting the sample.
LabCorp Express is available in big city locations. Due to the volume of people, they have an automated check-in system. Your ID is scanned, and a photo is taken to show that you are the person submitting the ID as you check in.
However you arrive, eventually, somebody will collect you and take you to where you will submit your sample. You may be searched. They can take a bag, coat, or hat off you, and they can pat you down. They can't touch you intimately or ask you to remove items of clothing that would leave you naked (but they could, for example, ask you to take off a big jumper or a zip-up hooded top).
Most drug testing is unsupervised, meaning they will not be in the room with you, or you will be sent behind a screen or into a separate room on your own. If it's supervised, you will know about this in advance because that requires different legal standards and consent.
For a urine test, you will pee into a cup. The cup will have a temperature strip on the side. Within four minutes of handing it over they must record the temperature, and it must read between 90degF and 100degF to be valid.
Mouth swab drug testing is slightly different; they will obviously be in the room with you. They will take a swab sample from around the gum line, usually on the bottom of the mouth on the inside where your tongue is. That's where saliva containing metabolites is most likely to collect.
For a LabCorp hair drug test, they will cut the hair sample of several strands from against the scalp. Only a length of hair will actually be tested that equals the most recent 90 days of growth.