It is an ironic but very real fact that sometimes, the parents are the last people in the world to realize that their child has been abusing drugs and alcohol. The fact that it is natural for parents to believe in the best in their children, and that they had to rely on such unreliable means as intuition and sniff-tests when they hug children good night, may be factors that lead to their being kept in the dark regarding their children’s drug use.
But this no longer necessarily needs to be the case. Nowadays, parents may already make informed, scientific assessments as to whether their children have gone down a dangerous route – and do something about it – through drug testing. Home drug tests are now being described as “parenting tools” that parents may want to consider having handy at home.
Jon Daily, the clinical director of Recovery Happens Counseling Services, shared: “Tests are a good thing to have in the medicine chest when you’re having the talk about drugs.” Trease Petersen, youth intervention specialist with the Davis Police Department, on the other hand, shared: “We offer the drug testing kits as a tool for parents to use, and provide them at cost… Instead of seeing it as an invasion of privacy, kids who have nothing to hide, hide nothing.”
Home drug tests, usually in the form of urine tests, have the ability to detect the presence of a range of substances in a person’s system, including marijuana, ecstasy, opiates and methamphetamine, as well as Valium, Xanax, and Oxycontin. Digital Breathalyzers that screen for alcohol use are also available. These can be bought at such stores as Target or Walmart, or can be bought online.
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