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Drug testing started life as a niche industry on the internet aimed at giving worried parents peace of mind. They were originally designed to check teenagers for signs of drug use and quickly became very popular, at least with parents anyway. It wasn't long before products arrived that offered to fool the tests and "protect the privacy of teenagers." Thus, the cat-and-mouse game that is drug testing was formed. Like so many other industries, a development on one side forces a counter on the other. As soon as a new detection method is developed, a way of circumventing it is devised and rushed to market. The effectiveness of either the kit, or the circumvention methods is often called into question, but experts at the Children's Hospital in Boston say they are, for the most part, accurate. Many of the kits available on the internet offer similar results that a fully equipped laboratory could. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your perspective, many of the circumvention methods are just as effective. At home drug testing uses kits of various kinds. Some will test hair, saliva or even urine. Some will have you sending the sample off for confirmation testing and others are confident in their own results. They vary in sophistication, for a drip-type strip that tests for THC for a couple of dollars, right up to chemical wipe tests similar to those used by law enforcement, for several hundred. To counter these there are circumvention methods such as "system flushes" that offer to purge the system of any trace of drugs for a few dollars. ~These are often made up of herbal remedies that are attributed with cleaning the system, or detoxing. There is even a product that provides an "anatomically correct" unit that is worn in the underwear, stores urine, keeps it at body temperature and is re-usable for the ultimate in test diversion. The unit even comes with dehydrated "clean" urine so it can be used as many times as needed. This level of sophistication has to be applauded, for its innovation alone if nothing else. It demonstrates that many people believe drug testing to be intrusive and contrary to their right of privacy. We aren't going to get into the politics of at home drug testing here, but suffice to say, there is as much energy put into spoofing home drugs test as there is to designing them. The majority of home drug testing kits work as advertised but as always when buying off the internet it's a case of caveat emptor. Let the buyer beware. Buy a kit from a reputable retailer, look for reviews of the kit and check for negative press. If you're planning on using a home test kit, consider backing it up with one carried out by a physician if it appears positive, just to make sure. A false accusation is going to damage relations between parent and child even more than administering the test in the first place.
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