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Are you concerned that your son, daughter or family member is doing drugs? Is the prospect of having to bring them into a clinic too awful to contemplate? Then why not try home drug testing as an alternative? 1. Why Home Drug Testing? Looking at it from an objective point of view, home drug tests provide many advantages for people who value their privacy and the privacy of their family members, close friends and life partners. At-home drug tests are also cheaper than to go to a drug testing facility and to have an examination done there. It is also less hassle and less worry on your part. Finally, at-home testing provides anonymity that maintains a sense of privacy surrounding your family. And that means more respect and more trust from the people you suspect. 2. Choose The Right Type of Kit There are several types of do-it-yourself drug test kits available on the market right now. These include: urine tests, blood tests, saliva tests, and hair follicle test kits. By knowing beforehand what kind of test you need, you will save on your time. The most effective type of drug test kit today - favored by professional employers, lawyers, educators and health professionals alike - is the hair follicle drug test kit. The hair drug test can tell you not only if your child has drugs in their system at the time of the test, but over the past 3+ months, too. 3. What Can Drug Tests Detect? Hair drug tests are designed to detect long-term use of the following drugs: Marijuana Amphetamines Cocaine Barbiturates Methamphetamines Opiates These multi-drug tests are handy because they screen your loved ones for a wide range of drugs on one sample - not just marijuana. This means you no longer need to buy a single test for every type of drug that you fear your family member might be using. This saves money, exposes new risks and makes the testing process simpler. It even makes it possible to test people without their knowledge (just snip a hair sample while sleeping), although I’m not necessarily advocating this. 4. Speak Honestly With Your Family It is important to talk openly with your family members before the testing process. Let them know you are testing them because you love them and the drug use is having a negative impact on the family. Often, family members - especially teens - will be rebellious and feel a lack of trust if you bring up the subject of having a drug test conducted. Let them know that regardless of the result, the main objective isn't to make things harder on them, but to simply put your mind at ease. If that fails, then as I mentioned before if you are sneaky you can perform a drug test on your loved one while they are sleeping. You will need to clip approximately 40 hairs that are approximately one and one-half inches from the base of their root (scalp skin line). This is enough for the most hair drug test kits. The hair drug testing companies suggest cutting the hair from the scalp near the base of the back of the head, so the loss of hair is not noticeable. 5. Use The Internet There are are countless websites and companies that offer home drug-testing kits. This is great, because most people don’t want to shop for this sort of stuff in public. But only a few brands are reputable and rated highly by customers. Look and compare. Find out if there are reviews for the testing kit you are considering to buy. We review some of them on our site, too. If you are looking for a quick answer based on our own research, then check out our home page for a short list of the best-rated hair drug test kits on the market today - with best-priced links to online retailers.

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