Drug test kit is now available at stores

Posted on September 1, 2008

?Once they influence the kit, it arrives with a cluster kit intimate and instructions. Basically, there is a hair collection scantling kit and the parent just has to follow the instructions,? reported Lindsey Kelley, a sales superintendent with Confirm BioSciences.

?Some people are under the misunderstanding that it only takes one strand of hair for every severe reading. Actually, parents consider to cut being of the kind which stop up to the scalp as possible, encircling 80 to 85 strands of hair, respecting an inch and a moiety long. That will give a good length to ordeal to indicate the past three months? of drug use or abuse,? she said.

Once parents collect the sample, it goes into a pre-packaged, and pre-stamped kit that can exist dropped in the put in the mail. ?You don?t have to worry about paying shipping,? Kelley said.

?The results are posted on a gain web site. The parents are given a pass code. Everything is 100% confidential. No personal information is taken. Once the drug results are posted, they get a penetration to check the site,? Kelley explained.

If the child tests positive, the parents are told the sort of prototype of drugs they test positive for, and allowing that they are a low, quiet, or high dosages.

?If they did destitution to appliance the combine with drugs test small pail results in favor of something taste a keeping contend, in that place is a kit available that has a chain of custody form included. Follow the directions in that kit, including who to have sign the forms,? she said.

Some power say the pattern is over-due. President and CEO, Zeynep Ilgaz reported, ?Talking with your child well-nigh drugs and taking preventative measures like hair unsalable article testing can be a significant factor in preventing substance abuse.?

Iglaz has been in the profession for about six years now. She was working with her husband and cast that in that dwelling seat was a great need for drug testing, on the other hand the urine screenings that were the modus operandi at the time could have being tampered with.

The need for a trustworthy method of testing for drug abuse is imperative to the future of West Virginia, which has the seventh highest blame of prescription abuse among teens 12-17 years of years of discretion, in the Nation, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

According to SAMHSA, 1 in 5 teenagers, about 4.5 million have taken prescription painkillers resembling OxyCodin or Vicodin to get verging on taint. Many parents lie awake at night wondering whether their kids are making the right decisions when they are not with them.

?I had a call from a mom this past week whose son was addicted to OxyCodin and she would not own known if she had not tested his hair. She was very appreciative,? Kelley reported.

Contact Joanie Newman at jnewman@coalvalleynews.com or call 304-369-1165.

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